Naomi Iizuka is a playwright and head of the graduate MFA playwriting program at UC-San Diego. Her plays include STRIKE-SLIP, 36 VIEWS, ANON(YMOUS), CITIZEN 13559, HAMLET: BLOOD IN THE BRAIN (a collaboration with CalShakes and Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts), AT THE VANISHING POINT, 17 REASONS WHY, POLAROID STORIES, LANGUAGE OF ANGELS, WAR OF THE WORLDS (a collaboration with Anne Bogart and SITI Company), ALOHA, SAY THE PRETTY GIRLS, TATTOO GIRL and SKIN. Ms. Iizuka’s plays have been produced by Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Children’s Theater Company, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Huntington Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, GeVa Theater, Portland Center Stage, the Public Theatre, Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts, the Dallas Theatre Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s “Next Wave Festival”, Soho Rep, and the Edinburgh Festival. Her play AFTER A HUNDRED YEARS will premiere at the Guthrie Theater in Spring 2008. Ms. Iizuka is currently working on commissions from the Goodman Theater, the Huntington Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Cornerstone, Berkeley Rep, and the La Jolla Playhouse. She is a member of New Dramatists and the recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Award, an Alpert Award, a Joyce Foundation Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Stavis Award from the National Theatre Conference, a Rockefeller Foundation MAP grant, an 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.