Joshua Conkel is a playwright, director, and Navy brat who spent his childhood traveling the United States with his family. His plays include The Chalk Boy and I Wanna Destroy You, among others, and his work has been seen in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Washington D.C. and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His short play about the rapture, Up With (Some) People, was recently a finalist at the 34th Annual Samuel French Festival at Playwrights Horizons. Additionally, his short play about abstinence and marriage, entitled Save Yourself for You, will be presented as part of next month's EstroGenius festival at Manhattan Theatre Source. Joshua is the Artistic Direcor of The Management and a proud member of Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theatre's emerging playwrights' group. You can read his rantings on queer politics, bad fashion, and forgotten pop culture at www.tarhearted.typepad.com. BFA, Cornish College of the Arts.

Isaac Butler is a director and writer based in Brooklyn.  Previous directing credits at Horse Trade theaters include The Rapid Response Team, the world premieres of Dan Trujillo's The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist (which went on to the Capitol Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C.) and Clay McLeod Chapman's volume of smoke (which he also directed at The Firehouse Theatre Project, The 14th Street Y Theatre and Virginia Commonwealth University as a guest artist). Other credits include Trujillo's Talk of the Walk-Up and Chapman's redbird as well as George Hunka's In Private, In Public, Sustaining and All The Ships At Sea. He also directed the first production of a contemporary Danish play in English in the United States with First You're Born by Line Knutzon at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. Isaac is a two time member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, a graduate of Vassar College, a lover of dogs and the writer behind Parabasis (http://parabasis.typepad.com) which has been featured in the New York Times, Time Out New York and the Wall Street Journal.