John Kuntz is the author of 14 full-length plays, including The Superheroine Monologues (co-written with Rick Park), Sing Me to Sleep, Freaks, Starfuckers, After School Special, My Life with the Kringle Kult, Miss Price, The Hotel Nepenthe, Glitterati,Emerald City, Jasper Lake, Jump/Rope and Actorz with a Z. He received both an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award for his solo showStarfuckers, and both of his plays Sing Me To Sleep and Freaks! received Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Fringe Production. He was an inaugural Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and a Fellow at the O’Neill Center 2007. His playJasper Lake received both the Michael Kanin and Paula Vogel National Playwriting Awards, with productions at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC) and the New York Fringe Festival. His newest solo show, The Salt Girl, was honored with the 2010 Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play. He teaches at Suffolk University, Concord Academy, and is on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory.