Rajiv Joseph

Rajiv Joseph is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an award winning playwright. Rajiv has been called “daring, magnificent, and virtuosic” by the L.A. Times.

Rajiv Joseph wrote Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (a 2010 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Huck and Holden, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Animals Out of Paper, The Monster at the Door, and The North Pool. He is the book-writer and co-lyricist for the upcoming musical, Fly, adapted from JM Barrie’s novel, Peter Pan. Rajiv Joseph received his BA in Creative Writing from Miami University and his MFA in Playwriting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa.

Rajiv has been awarded a United States Artists Grant, the Whiting Award, the Glickman Award, and the National Endowment for the Arts Outstanding New American Play grant. He is currently a writer on the Showtime television series Nurse Jackie.

Rachel Axler

Rachel Axler is a nice, short person who has won two Emmys. Her plays include Smudge (O’Neill NPC 2008, Women’s Project 2010) and Archaeology (The Kitchen Theatre, 2009), as well short pieces for Chalk Rep and Urban Arts Partnership/24 Hour Plays, in recent years.
For television, Rachel has written for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Parks and Recreation, How I Met Your Mother, Childrens Hospital and a bunch of other great shows.

She received her BA from Williams College and her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD, and no, she didn’t forget the apostrophe in “Childrens.”

CREDITS

Smudge

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