ERIN BLACKWELL's 10-pagers have played Berkeley (PlayGround, Woman's Will 24-Hour Play Fest), Boston, London, Long Island, Los Angeles, Marblehead, New York, Oakland, San Francisco & Santa Rosa; they're in Smith & Kraus’ 2004: Best Ten-Minute Plays. Handbag won SLAMBoston 2006. She conducts 10-Minute Play CLINIC & writes for Bay Area Reporter, East Bay Monthly & Theater Bay Area.

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 ROB DARIO recently portrayed Horatio for Shakespeare at Stinson's Hamlet.  He has worked with Berkeley Rep, SF Shakespeare Festival, Darkroom Productions (Vallejo), Custom Made Theatre Co., and La Vache Enragee Productions among other Bay Area companies. A graduate from the Theater and Dance Department of CSU Sacramento, he also works in comercial print, independent film and television. Rob is also a graphic designer, collaborating with theater companies. Visit Rob's site here.

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  MARCELLE DRONKERS, the anti-diva, hikes, rows in the Bay & rescues feral cats. She resides in Kensington with son Christopher, giving FUN, compassionate singing lessons. Marcelle recently sang Mozart's C Minor Mass in Prague, Salzburg & Vienna with Santa Clara Chorale; Lady Macbeth & Agrippina with Pocket Opera.  www.maddiva.com.

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  DAROTHY DURKAC's one-acts have been staged by Eastenders Repertory, Writers Who Act, Julian Theater & Temescal Arts Center Summer Solstice Festival. Durkac has performed in UponThese Boards' Lysistrata Project, Woman's Will's Comedy of Errors,  Nightletter Theater's Persephone's Dream, Theater Group Expanding's Autumn Comes with His Dead Leaves & Redentor.

________________________________________________    PATRICIA MILTON is co-author with Andrew Black of three comedies which have been produced in New York, Phoenix, and San Diego. Their play, "Strange Bedfellows," won the 2005 SF Stage and Film Absolute Time Play Festival.

She has written several one-act plays, including “The Champions of the World, “The Dentist,” and “The Only Virgin in Jubilee County,” and a two-act children’s play, “The Maids!”  Her ten-minute plays have been produced at the 2004 Bay Area Festival of One Act Plays (2nd Prize), 2004 and 2003 Short Leaps Festivals, Boston PlaySlam, and PlayGround. She is the Board President, Playwrights Center of San Francisco, and a member of Theatre Bay Area, Play Café and The Dramatists Guild. Patricia's blog can be read here.

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SONDRA PUTNAM has performed thrice in SF Fringe Festivals & once in the eponymous Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her personal focus in the "cruel & unusual" is stopping violence against women.
________________________________________________ ALAN QUISMORIO is the Artistic Director of AlchemySF and a company member of Crowded Fire. He previous credits include the Jon Sims Center (JSC) premiere and New Conservatory restaging of Harry Cronin's Dooley. This past year, he directed Cronin's Dark Matter at JSC and Dan Harder's Quartet #1 for Three Characters and a Cello at the Actors Theater. As a producer, he staged Joe Jennison's A Beautiful Man (Best of Fringe selection; recipient of the Dean Goodman Award) at the 2003 SF Fringe. His acting credits include A Language of Their Own with the Asian American Theatre Company, The Sweetest Hangover (& Other STDs) with Brava! For Women in the Arts, and the Shotgun Players' Troilus and Cressida.49 Miles and most recently Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City. He has worked on projects with the Magic Theatre, Oakland Public Theatre, and Word for Word. With Crowded Fire, he appeared in Trevor Allen's

________________________________________________  RODNEY THOMAS lives in San Francisco, studied theatre at San Francisco State University, is a member of Erin Blackwell’s Play Clinic and Jonathan Luskin’s For Play writers groups. He has worked with Gioia DeCari and Miriam Eusebio at the Dumbo and Spotlight On festivals in New York and has contributed to San Francisco’s PlayGround Monday Night Series. He is a member, Theatre Bay Area, Playwrights Center of San Francisco, and Theatre Communications Group.

ALINA TROWBRIDGE studied writing at San Francisco State University & the art of the 10-minute play with Erin Blackwell. Her 10-pagers have been presented by Another Country Productions, PlayGround, Pan Theater, Theaters Against War, Three Wise Monkeys, Mae West Fest & Yellow Taxi Productions in Berkeley, Boston, New York, New Hampshire, San Francisco & Seattle. Her full-length, Seismic Surprises Enliven Our Lives, received honorable mention at the Stage 3 Theater Festival in Sonoma. A Moment of Your Undivided Attention will appear in Smith & Kraus’s Best 10-Minute Plays of 2005.