ETHAN COEN (Playwright) has written three previous evenings of one acts, Almost an Evening, Offices, and Happy Hour, all directed by Neil Pepe at Atlantic Theater Company. His full-length play Women or Nothing was directed by David Cromer, also at Atlantic, and he contributed a play to Relatively Speaking, a Broadway trio of short comedies whose other contributors were Woody Allen and Elaine May. Coen has written a collection of stories, “Gates of Eden,” and two collections of poems, “The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way” and “The Day the World Ends.” Coen has made 21 movies, mostly with his brother Joel, lately with his wife Tricia Cooke. The latest is called Honey Don’t!

NEIL PEPE (Director) received a Tony Nomination for Best Director for the production of American Buffalo. Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody, Speed-the-Plow, A Life in the Theatre. Off-Broadway/Regional: A Play Is A Poem (CTG); Juno and the Paycock (Irish Rep); On the Shore of the Wide World, The Penitent, Marie and Rosetta, Dying for It, 3 Kinds of Exile, Happy Hour, Offices, Almost an Evening, Parlour Song, The Night Heron, Mojo, Celebration, The Room, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Sea of Tranquility, Blue/Orange, Wolf Lullaby, Cornelia Street (Atlantic); Hold on to Me Darling (Lucille Lortel Theatre, Atlantic); The Subject Was Roses, Keep Your Pantheon, Romance (Center Theatre Group, Atlantic); Red Angel (Williamstown); Further Than the Furthest Thing (MTC); The Beginning of August (South Coast Repertory, Atlantic); American Buffalo (Donmar Warehouse, Atlantic); Refuge (Playwrights Horizons); I’m Not Rappaport (Shadowland Stages). Neil has been the artistic director of Atlantic Theater Company since 1992.