Cultural Diversity Ate My Lunch
How do you participate in a flawed system and still retain your identity? An angry college professor has a lot to say about 'diversity' in the intellectual world.

Playwright: Alonzo LaMont, Jr.

Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland

Current Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Marlboro College, VT. Grad school: Univ. of Iowa. First Production: Atlanta. Got an agent. Production: off-Broadway. Great reviews. Productions: Cincinnati, Memphis, Austin, Atlanta, Amsterdam, D.C. Great reviews. Lost an agent. Productions. Amsterdam, Chicago. LA. Grant here, grant there. Other produced works: "That Serious He-Man Ball, "Vivisections From The Blown Mind" "Life Go Boom". Short cup of joe writing for "A Different World." (TV)

One Night at Fern's
Everyone gets along at Fern's diner, a sleepy greasy spoon on the Kansas-Misourri border. All that changes when a young man holds three waitresses hostage and each finds out what the others are really like...

Playwright: Darren Canady

Hometown: Topeka, Kansas

Current Location: Brooklyn, New York

Darren Canady's play False Creeds, was named the winner of the Alliance Theater's Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition. It was workshopped at the O'Neill Playwright's Conference and was also a finalist for the Abingdon Theatre Company's Christopher Brian Wolk Award. He Was Mine But Then You Took Him received a production at NYU in December 2005 and was then accepted to compete at the Region II Festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. He Was Mine...was also a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville's 2006 Heidelman Playwriting Award. Another play, Brothers of the Dust, was awarded second place in KCACTF's Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Competition. Darren is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, New York University and was a fellow in the Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program.