Christopher Durang ’s* (Playwright, Man) plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination, Best Book of a Musical, 1978), The Actor’s Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Off Broadway, 1981-83; OBIE Award), Beyond Therapy (Broadway, 1982, with Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow), Baby with the Bathwater (Playwrights Horizons, 1983), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (The Public Theater/NYSF, 1985; OBIE Award, Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award), Laughing Wild (Playwrights Horizons, 1987), Durang/Durang (Manhattan Theatre Club, 1994), Sex and Longing (Lincoln Center Theater, 1996, starring Sigourney Weaver), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons, 1999; OBIE Award), and Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (City Theatre, 2002). Fall 2005 will see the premiere of a new play, Miss Witherspoon, co-produced by the McCarter Theatre and Playwrights Horizons; and a musical, Adrift in Macao, (book and lyrics by Mr. Durang, music by Peter Melnick) at Philadelphia Theatre Company. Mr. Durang acted with E. Katherine Kerr in the New York premiere of Laughing Wild, and with Jean Smart in the Los Angeles production. He shared in an acting ensemble OBIE for The Marriage of Bette and Boo; and with John Augustine and Sherry Anderson has performed his crackpot cabaret Chris Durang and Dawne at Caroline’s Comedy Club, Williamstown Summer Cabaret, and the Triad, winning a 1996 Bistro Award. In the early ‘80s, he and Sigourney Weaver co-wrote and performed in Das Lusitania Songspiel; in 1993, he sang in the Off Broadway Sondheim revue, Putting It Together with Julie Andrews (Manhattan Theatre Club); and he played a singing congressman in Call Me Madam with Tyne Daly (City Center Encores!). Mr. Durang appeared in the films The Secret of My Success, Mr. North, The Butcher’s Wife, Housesitter, and The Cowboy Way, among others. He has a B.A. from Harvard University, and an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. Since 1994 he has co-chaired, with Marsha Norman, the Playwriting Program at The Juilliard School. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council.