ABOUT THE AUTHORS
 KAREN
ZACARIAS (playwright) is the winner of the
1998 DC Mayor's Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist.
Her play The Sins of Sor Juana premiered
at Theatre of the First Amendment in DC, winning
her Washington DC's prestigious Charles MacArthur
Award for Outstanding New Play. Sor Juana was also
the winner of the Hispanic Playwrights' Project at
South Coast Rep., and was developed by ArtWorks,
the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Trinidad
Theatre Workshop in St. Lucia under the direction
of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott.
Her other plays for young audiences include The
Thirteenth Summer of William and Pilar, a play
about African-American and Latino relations in D.C.
(Premiered by GALA Hispanic Theatre and the African
Continuum Theatre Company) and her latest work, Choosing
Nine, a play about mixed race teenagers which
has been invited to the International Children's
Theatre Festival in San Diego, California.
Currently, Karen is the Founder and Artistic Director
of The Young Playwrights' Theater of D.C. (YPT), an
arts-outreach program that uses playwriting and theater
for conflict resolution, dialogue, and arts empowerment
for inner-city youth. She and her husband Rhett are
the proud parents of baby Nico, born in May 2003.
DEBORAH WICKS LA PUMA (music) - see
her bio page |
