Robert Alexander (Servant of the People, Will He Bop Will He Drop) is the author of 19 plays including the widely seen I Ain't Yo' Uncle; the New Jack Revisionist Uncle Tom's Cabin and Secret in the Sands, the latter two originally written for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He is also the author of the very popular and much produced The Hourglass.
 
As the playwright-in-residence at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, he has staged several world premieres for that company including Air Guitar (a rock opera) and We Almost Made It to the Super Bowl (a tragicomedy about racism in the NFL). His works have been produced or workshopped by some of the top regional theatres in the country including the Negro Ensemble Company, The Kennedy Center, The GROUP Theatre, Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles Theatre Center, The Hartford Stage Company, Jomandi Productions, St. Louis Black Repertory Company, Crossroads Theatre Company, and San Diego Repertory Theatre.

His most recent play, A Preface to the Alien Garden was read at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and was presented last fall in the New Works Festival at the Mark Taper Forum. Many of Alexander's early plays have been printed in various anthologies and I Ain't Yo' Uncle is now available through Dramatic Publishing Company.
 
Alexander is the recipient of numerous writing awards, grants, and fellowships and is currently compiling and co-editing an anthology called -Colored Contradictions; Postmodern African American Drama with Harry Elam, a drama professor at Stanford University. Colored Contradictions...- will be published by Penguin Press USA this summer and will include works by Alexander, Susan-Lori Parks, Cheryl West, Rhodessa Jones, Keith Antar Mason, Pomo Afro Homos, Shay Youngblood and many others.
 
A 1975 graduate of Oberlin College, Alexander is currently enrolled in the MFA program for playwriting at the University of Iowa; however, he still maintains a permanent residence in Oakland, California.

Keely Haddad-Null (Alice of the House of Carroll, Alaska, Lenore)
 
Michael Sokoloff, Resident Playwright (Yuba City, Red Dog Moon, Kirkos) started writing plays after two decades of working in the theater in virtually every other capacity, and in venues that have included the Broadway stage, major regional theatres, Chicago store-fronts, and beyond. Currently, he has scripts at Actor's Theater of Louisville, The Arena Stage, and The Joseph Papp Public Theater. In Chicago, he conceived and directed the controversial physical theater piece, Judas Goat, at the Organic Theater, and shocked the 1990 off-off Loop Theater Festival with his bawdy script, Old Wives Tales.