Dennis Richard is the author of over sixty-five plays. His most recent plays are The Game Against Bobby Fischer, The Atherton Mystery, The Rosenberg Case, Owls in the North End, and The Christine Keeler Story. His play Oswald – the Actual Interrogation has had productions in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, and was part of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Kennedy Assassination produced in Fort Worth, Texas by the Casa Manana Theater.
Louis Fantasia is a writer, director, and producer who has produced and directed more than two hundred and fifty plays and operas worldwide. His books include Instant Shakespeare, Tragedy in the Age of Oprah, and Talking Shakespeare: Notes from a Journey. A monologue from his first play, Dreams from a Sleep to Come (2020), is included in Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2021 (Smith & Kraus). World Class, (also from Dreams) was selected for the "Outbreak" edition of the online literary journal Some Scripts. He is also the General Editor of the series, Playing Shakespeare’s Characters for Peter Lang Publishers. In 2003, the Council of Europe named the theater collection at its library in the European Parliament in his honor. In 2016, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) for his contributions to German culture and theater. He is currently Artistic Associate of the Los Angeles Shakespeare Center and Director of the Shakespeare Institute.
