Marisha Chamberlain is a poet, playwright, and screenwriter whose work has been seen throughout North America. She has written 15 plays and screenplays, notably Scheherazade, which, in its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, won the FDG/CBS Regional and National Awards. Ms. Chamberlain has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. She attended Macalester College and the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, as well as Middle Tennessee State University and Goddard College.
Roberta Carlson is familiar to local audiences for her work at Children's Theatre Company and the Jungle Theater. She has also composed for the Guthrie Theater, Arizona Theater Company, and many other theaters across the country. Her score for Steven Dietz's Dracula has been used in more than 150 productions nationally, as well as Canada, Europe and Japan. She has twice been the recipient of the Arizona State Arts Council "Zuni" Award as well as various other critics' awards.
