Lindsay Price is the resident playwright for Theatrefolk and writes excusively for schools and student performers. She has been a professional playwright for eighteen years and written over 50 plays. Most recently, she won the 2013 Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival (Caryl Crane Youth Theatre) with her play THE GIFT, and nine of her plays were featured at the 2013 Singapore Secondary School Drama Festival. Two of her plays, SHUDDERSOME: TALES OF POE and FLAKY LIPS advanced to the Provincial Showcase Level of the Sears Drama Festival, and AMONG FRIENDS AND CLUTTER won the best play award at the 2013 SETC High School Theatre Festival. Lindsay is an established workshop leader and dramaturg. She acted as dramaturg for the 2013 International Thespian Festival Playworks Program as well as the Collingwood Gaslight Theatre Project. Upcoming she will teach playwriting workshops at the CODE conference and the Florida Association of Theatre Educators Conference. Lindsay is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Dramatists Guild of America. She is also an invited member of the Theatre Ontario Talent Bank in Creative Writing, Play Polishing and Adjudication.
Chicago-born playwright Craig Sodaro began writing plays in grade school and continued creating unusual dramatic pieces ("The Dismembered Pencil") in high school. While attending Marquette University in Milwaukee, he studied playwriting and had several shows produced by the university theater company, the Marquette Players. With a degree in journalism and English, Sodaro began a teaching career that would last thirty-three years. During that time he continued to write plays, often for schools or theatrical groups with which he worked. This led to his first published play, "Forlorn at the Fort" (Plays magazine), a melodrama written for the Wyoming-based Frontier Outlaw Troupe which he directed for thirteen years. In 1976, Sodaro's first full-length play, Tea and Arsenic, appeared, and since then he has had over one hundred plays published by various play publishers throughout the country. His plays Hush, Little Baby, and Second Hand Kid were performed in New York and Los Angeles, and his works have been produced around the world. Currently a dozen of his plays have been translated into the Dutch. Among many writing awards, Sodaro has twice won the Jackie White Memorial Children's Playwriting Award. He now writes full time and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife Sue. They have four daughters, Sally, Amy, Katie, and Betsy.
