Naomi Iizuka's (Playwright) play 36 Views was produced at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Public Theater/NYSF, Geva Theatre Center, Portland Center Stage, and the Laguna Playhouse. Her play At the Vanishing Point was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville and premiered at the 2003 Humana Festival (directed by Les Waters). Her other plays include Polaroid Stories; Language of Angels; War of the Worlds (written in collaboration with Anne Bogart and SITI Company); Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls; Tattoo Girl; and Skin. Ms. Iizuka recently completed Anon(ymous), a commission for the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis that will be produced in 2006. She is currently working on commissions for Mark Taper Forum, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, and California Shakespeare Festival. She is a member of New Dramatists and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Joyce Foundation Award, a Stavis Award from the National Theatre Conference, a Rockefeller Foundation MAP grant, a Gerbode Foundation Fellowship, a NEA/TCG Artist-in-Residence grant, a McKnight Fellowship, a PEN Center USA West Award for Drama, Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship, and a Jerome Fellowship. Ms. Iizuka received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. She has taught playwriting at the University of Iowa and the University of Texas, Austin. She is currently the director of the playwriting program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.