Verónica Bujeiro (THE SADNESS OF THE LIMES) Born in Mexico City in 1976. She is a graduate of Licenciatura en Lingüística from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) and from the Curso de Guión Cinematográfico from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. She was a finalist of the Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Joven “Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo” with the play El sueño de la Razón in 2002. Her play La Tristeza de los Cítricos premiered in 2006 and was published in the collection “Los Libros de la Capilla”. She is a scholarship recepient from IMCINE, FONCA (Jóvenes Creadores) and Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas.

Hugo Alfredo Hinojosa Diaz (DESERTS) (Tijuana, B.C. 1977) is a dramaturg, narrator, translator, and essayist. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and with a degree in Theatre from the Centro de Artes Escénicas del Noroeste del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. He participated in several acting workshops with Luis de Tavira and José Caballero and directing workshops with Ludwik Margules. As an actor he participated in numerous pieces. As a dramaturg he perfected his craft in workshops led by Jaime Chabaud and David Olguín. He is the author of the book Orillas (2004). Other dramatic texts of his have appeared in the anthologies Teatro del Norte 4 (2003) and Teatro de la Gruta VI (2006). He has received scholarships from Fondo para la Cultura y las Artes de Baja California (2003-2004); FONCA-Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada (2004); and from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (2005-2007). He was a finalist of the National Award of Dramaturgia Joven Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo 2005 and he obtained second place in the National Award of Relato Breve «Mano de obra» 2007. Periodically he collaborates with various magazines of national circulation.

Susana Cook (Translator, OF PRINCES, PRINCESSES, AND OTHER CREATURES) Born in Argentina, Susana Cook is a performer, playwright and director who works in political theatre. She graduated from the National School of Drama in Buenos Aires and also trained in theater in Paris, before moving to the United States in 1991. Susana directs all her shows and performs in them with her company. Her current work focuses on parallels between the dictatorship in Argentina and the present U.S. administration. Concerned with issues such as racism, classism, nationalism, and homophobia, Susana creates powerful political satires that use humor as a tool for exposing the rationales used to justify oppressions against minorities. Susana has staged her plays in numerous venues in New York City, including Dixon Place, PS. 122, W.O.W Cafe Theater, Ubu Rep, Theater for the New City, The Puffin Room, and The Kitchen. Her shows have also been featured internationally in Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. She has been invited for speaking engagements, workshops, and performances at Yale University, Barnard, Columbia University, Oberlin, Hampshire College, Williams College, NYU's Hemispheric Institute, and the University of Michigan. For her theatrical innovation and excellence, Susana has received awards from New York Foundation for the Arts, the Astraea Foundation, Arts International, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Puffin Foundation. She was commissioned by Dixon Place to produce the plays 100 Years of Attitude in 2004 and The Values Horror Show in 2005.

Migdalia Cruz's (Translator, VAN GOGH IN NEW YORK) work has been produced across the U.S. and abroad at various venues including: Classic Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, INTAR, Brooklyn Academy of Music, En-Garde Arts, HOME, Shaliko Company, New York Shakespeare Festival’s Festival Latino, Theatre For The New City, and the W.O.W. Cafe (New York); National Theater of Greece(Athens); Foro Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico City); Old Red Lion (London, England); Vancouver Players (Vancouver, B.C.); Latino Chicago Theater Company (Chicago); Houston Grand Opera (Houston); American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge); Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland); Frank Theatre (Minneapolis); Théâtre d’aujourd hui (Montreal); American Music Theatre Festival (Philadelphia); Intersection for the Arts/LATA (San Francisco); Andy’s Playhouse (NH.); and Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles), among others. She has been nurtured by Maria Irene Fornes’ Playwrights’ Laboratory at INTAR; Royal Court Theatre/New Dramatists Exchange ’94 (London); Steppenwolf Theatre’s New PlaysLab (Chicago); Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival ’94, Festival Latino’93 at Teatro Mision (San Francisco); the Sundance Institute; Midwest PlayLabs; Mark Taper Forum’s New Play Festival; Omaha Magic Theatre; “Songs from Coconut Hill” Theater Festival ’05; South Coast Rep’s HPP ’04. She has written over thirty plays including: Salt, Fur, Miriam’s Flowers, Lucy Loves Me,Dreams of Home, Telling Tales, ¡CHE-CHE-CHE!, Latins In La-La Land,Cigarettes and Moby-Dick, Lolita de Lares, and Running For Blood: No. 3 (a radio play). She wrote book and lyrics for the musicals Rushing Waters, Welcome Back To Salamancaand When Galaxy Six and TheBronx Collide; the libretto for an opera, Street Sense; and lyrics and monologues for Frida: The Story of Frida Kahlo. Her plays and monologues have been published by Theatre Communications Group, U. of Arizona Press, Routledge Press, Penguin Books, Arte Publico Press, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus Publishers, and Third Woman Press. She has taught playwriting at U.of Iowa/Playwrights’ Workshop, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton University, and at Amherst College, and guest lectured at Yale University, Wesleyan University, Mount Holyoke College, and Columbia University. She received commissions from Mabou Mines, NYSF’s Public Theater, Crossroads Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Latino Chicago Theater Company, Arena Stage, Playwrights Horizons, WNYC-radio, Ballet Hispanico, DUO and INTAR. Migdalia is a 1996 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays award for Another Part Of The House. Her play, The Have-little was the runner-up for the 1991 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and SALT was a 1997 runner-up. She won a 2005 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and a 1994 Connecticut Commission on The Arts grant for playwriting. At Classic Stage Company, she was a 1994 PEW/TCG National Artist in Residence. Migdalia was a 1997-98 Sackler Fellow at Connecticut Rep/UConn, a 1991 & 1995 NEA Playwriting Fellow, a 1988 McKnight Fellow, received her MFA degree from Columbia University, and is an alumna of New Dramatists. She was born and raised in the Bronx. 2006-07 Projects: El Grito del Bronx at the Goodman’s Festival Latino in 8/06 and NYU’s hotINK Festival in 1/07; Another Part of the House, produced by Teatro Vista (IL), 9/06; FUR/PELAJE, presented by the Ateneo Puertorriqueño (P.R.) in 4/07; and the Bronx part of Song For New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting, Mabou Mines (NY), 9/07; Dreams of Home, Monarch Theater Company (NY), 10/07; FUR, U.of WY/Laramie, 10/07. She is also adapting Petronius’ Anti-Nero Satryricon to GW Bush’s America. Agent: Ms. Peregrine Whittlesey, 279 CPW, New York, NY 10024 ph: 212-787-1802 fax: 212-787-4985 e-mail: pwwagy@aol.com

Caridad Svich (Translator, DESERTS) a playwright-songwriter-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish-Argentine-Croatian descent. She is the recipient of New Dramatists’ 2007 Whitfield Cook Prize for New Writing for her play Lucinda Caval, and the 2003 National Latino Playwriting Award for Magnificent Waste. She’s also received a Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Bunting fellowship, a TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Grant, and has been short-listed twice for the PEN USA-West Award in Drama. Recent premieres: The Tropic of X at artheater-Cologne (Germany), her play with alt-country songs Thrush at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, and her US adaptation of the Serbian dark comedy Huddersfield as a TUTA production at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Iphigenia…a rave fable at 7 Stages in Atlanta/GA and Son of Semele/CA, her translation of Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at the Pearl Theatre/NY, and her multimedia collaboration The Booth Variations at 59 East 59 th Street Theatre/NY and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK.

Additional Awards/Residencies: NEA/TCG Residency at Mark Taper Forum Theatre, Jonathan R. Reynolds Playwright in Residence at Denison University; Thurber House Fellow at Ohio State University; resident playwright at INTAR Theatre/NY. She has been guest artist at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, the Royal Court Theatre, Actors Touring Company/UK at the Euripides’ Festival in Monodendri, Greece and has taught playwriting at Yale School of Drama, Bennington College, Rutgers University, and the US-Cuba Writers’ Conference in Havana. She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, contributing editor of TheatreForum, on the editorial board of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge/UK), founder of the national theatre alliance and publishing press NoPassport.

Previous key credits : Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (winner of the Rosenthal New Play Prize) under Lisa Peterson’s direction, and Any Place But Here at Theater for the New City/NYC under Maria Irene Fornes’ direction. Fugitive Pieces at Cleveland Public Theatre/OH, Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas, and at Salvage Vanguard in Austin under Jason Neulander’s direction, The Archaeology of Dreams at Portland Stage Company’s Little Festival of the Unexpected, Twelve Ophelias was presented at Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York. She holds an MFA from UCSD. Her plays and papers are archived at the University of Miami, Florida and at the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University. Her works can be accessed at www.alexanderstreetpress.com, www.lulu.com, and her website is www.caridadsvich.com