Trista Baldwin is pleased to be writing with Thirst again.

Trista lives in
Minneapolis, from New York and Seattle, by way of generous Jerome
Fellowships and a McKnight Advancement Grant. Recent work includes
Mesujika Doe (Morishta Studio, Japan) with Tokyo artist Shirotama
Hitsujiya, and American Sexy (The Guthrie). Trista is a Core Member of
The Playwrights’ Center and one of the founders of Workhaus Collective.
She teaches screen and playwriting at St. Cloud State University. Her plays
Sand, Patty Red Pants, and others are available from Playscripts.

Patrick Coyle just completed writing and directing work on his second
feature film, Into Temptation, starring Kristin Chenoweth, Jeremy Sisto,
and Brian Baumgartner. His first feature film, Detective Fiction,
premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, with several awards on the
festival circuit. He was awarded the IFP McKnight Screenwriting
Fellowship in 2005. His newest screenplay begins shooting in 2010. He
recently appeared as Lou Grant in The Mary Tyler Moore Show at Torch
Theatre. Coyle lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughters.

Matt Dawson writes for Go2 Media, is a founding member of No Refunds

Theatre Co. and works freelance in production and technical theater in
only the finest of Twin Cities establishments. He fights crime in his spare
time.

Matthew Everett received his undergraduate degree from Indiana State

University in Terre Haute, Indiana, and holds an MFA from the Yale
School of Drama. His stage plays and screenplays have received
numerous accolades. His scripts have been seen on stages throughout
Minneapolis and in Los Angeles, Baton Rouge, and Pennsylvania.
Matthew is the host of the local television show "Cue To Cue: A
Conversation About Theater In The Twin Cities” and is a member of the
Dramatists Guild.
Kim Hines first set foot on the professional stage as a child member of the
Children's Theatre Company. She has performed at Mixed Blood Theater,
Illusion Theater, Penumbra Theater and the Guthrie Theatre. Kim's
written work has been staged in the Twin Cities and throughout the U.S.
Kim has directed for Theater Mu, Park Square, Theater in the Round, The
Great American History Theater, Illusion Theater, Augsburg College, and
other universities around the country. In 1997 she received the Bush
Fellowship for playwriting. She has had an active role in the development
of many local theater projects.
Cory Hinkle’s plays have been produced or developed at the Guthrie,
Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, ART, Williamstown Theater Festival, the
SPF Summer Play Festival, Illusion Theater, Rattlestick, Salvage
Vanguard, Workhaus Collective, P73 Productions, Hangar Theater, and
Red Eye Collective, among others. Cory has been commissioned by the
Guthrie and Actor’s Theater of Louisville and is a former MacDowell
Colony fellow, Sewanee Writer’s Conference Fellow and recipient of a
Jerome Travel and Study Grant. He is a Core Member of the Playwrights’
Center, member playwright of the Workhaus Collective and received two
Jerome fellowships through the Playwrights' Center. Cory earned his
MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.
Marion McClinton has been involved with the work of August Wilson
for many years, as both director and actor. He has directed for the Guthrie
Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Dallas
Theater Center, Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, and Williamstown
Theatre. Mr. McClinton is also a playwright whose plays have been
produced at Baltimore Center Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Pittsburgh
Public Theater, the Hudson Guild Theatre, Actors Theatre of
Louisville/Humana Festival, and Penumbra. Most recently, Mr. McClinton
directed the premiere of Drowning Crow at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roar
at New Group, and A.M. Sunday at Center Stage, Baltimore. He has been
nominated for and has received some of the most prestigious awards in
theater.
Allison Moore is a displaced Texan living in Minneapolis, where she is a
Core Member of The Playwrights' Center. Her plays include Hazard
County, Eighteen, Urgent Fury, The Strange Misadventures of Patty,
CowTown, and American Klepto. Her work has been developed or read at
the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival,
InterAct Theatre, and Manhattan Theatre Club; and produced at the Cherry
Lane Alternative, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Actor's Express, Actors Theatre of
Louisville, and The Playwrights' Center, among others. Ms. Moore has
received two Jerome Fellowships, a McKnight Advancement Grant, and
the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She graduated from Southern Methodist
University, and received her MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
Tom Poole’s three new plays are, in order of ascending freshness: The
Amorous Education of Nicholas Haycock, The Body, and Safe As Houses.
His work has been produced at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Magic Theatre
(San Francisco), The Children’s Theatre Company, Park Square Theatre,
and lots of other places. Honors include fellowships from the Jerome,
McKnight, and Divine Foundations, an Emmy award, and more. More
biographical information is available any time he has a drink.
Joseph Scrimshaw is a critically acclaimed actor, playwright and the
creative director of Joking Envelope, LLC—a comedy production
company. His work has been described as “intelligent and accessible” by
Twin Cities Daily Planet and “hilarious with a whiff of danger” by Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. He’s written new work for The History Theater, The
MN Historical Society and more as well as multiple top ten shows at the
Minnesota Fringe Festival. His plays have been performed in Chicago,
New York, Seattle, Dallas, Indianapolis, the UK, Bulgaria, and countless
bars and bowling alleys across the entire expanse of South Minneapolis.

Craig Wright’s works have been produced at Actors Theater of

Louisville, Northlight Theatre, Woolly Mammoth theatre, Playwrights
Horizons, the Folger Theatre, the Great American History Theatre,
Steppenwolf, the Arden Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and
Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre to much acclaim. Mr. Wright received an
Emmy nomination for his Six Feet Under episode Twilight and served as
writer and producer for Lost and Brothers & Sisters. His alternative rock
band The Tropicals' first release, Live At The Jungle, was named one of the
Top 10 local releases by every leading Twin Cities newspaper and weekly.
As a member of the band Kangaroo he has released two albums, Phantom
and the brand new Skyscraper Spaceship. A graduate of United
Theological Seminary, Mr. Wright lives in Los Angeles.