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Dan Moses Schreier (Composer, Sound Designer) attended University of Michigan, where he studied music composition with William Bolcom and worked on the new musical, Up from Paradise, a collaboration between Arthur Miller and Stanley Silverman based on Miller's play, The Creation of the World and Other Business. After his freshman year, Schreier moved to New York City to work as Stanley Silverman's assistant, continuing his studies in music composition at Columbia University. As sound designer, he worked with director Richard Foreman on seven productions, and created a series of soundscapes for the plays of Jeffrey M. Jones at the Performing Garage, culminating with the receipt of an OBIE Award for sustained excellence in Sound Design. With performing artist and puppet master Dan Hurlin, Schreier created the chamber opera, The Shoulder, which premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in 1998, toured nationally, and enjoyed a run at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT (the original cast CD is available on the Innova label). Schreier continues to compose and sound design in New York City, where he has worked on numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington; The Glass Menagerie starring Jessica Lange; the premiere of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul; Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, Pacific Overtures and Sweeney Todd; Dance of Death; Major Barbara; The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; The Tempest; Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk; Floyd Collins; and Spic-O-Rama. He is the recipient of three Drama Desk Awards for sound design; a 2004 L.A. Ovation Award; and the 2003 Entertainment Design Award for Sustained Excellence.
Sally Oswald (Playwright) is a playwright and the co-editor of Play: A Journal of Plays. She is the author of a cycle of Philadelphia plays and is at work on a new group of plays inspired by Shakespeare's so-called Romances that are by turn scripted slideshow, pastoral, or dance-theater. Sally recently wrote a libretto for Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum's London Symphony Chorus commission. Her work has been developed or produced with the Flea Theatre (2005 residency), New Georges, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Galapagos, St. Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab, The Public Theater, Little Theater at Tonic, Dixon Place, Voice and Vision, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Hangar Theatre, and Polybe+Seats. Honors include a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights Center (2007-8), a Thurber Fellowship (2006), residencies at the MacDowell Colony (2006) and Millay Colony (2006), a Dramatists Guild Fellowship (2003-04), an Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellowship (2004), the Weston Award (2003), and the Kenneth Janes Theater Prize (2001). She holds an MFA from Brown University and a BA from Barnard College. Sally's writing on new plays has appeared in PAJ and the Brooklyn Rail. Her plays have been published in Factorial, Encyclopedia, and by Baker's Plays. She has co-produced performance events at New Dramatists and The Empty Space Theatre for Play, and co-curates the Experimental Text Festival with Jennifer Tsuei for the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Sally has taught playwriting to graduate, undergraduate, and high-school students at Ohio State University, Brown University, and with Young Playwrights of New York and Philadelphia.