(Playwright and you may Manager) An Obie-award-successful playwright and manager. He’s mcdougal of many takes on, including The new Metal Pupils (Vineyard Movies), Nerican Repertory Cinema, Nyc Theatre Working area), Faster (Rattlestick), Animals & Flowers (A beneficial.R.T.), Finer Good Fumes (26th Humana Event, Rattlestick), Stone cold Deceased Really serious (A great.R.T., Boundary Theatre), BLACKBIRD (The fresh new Plant, London; Boundary Movies), GOMPERS, (Pittsburgh Area Theatre), Important Care about-Defense (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Movies), Western SLIGO (Rattlestick), BINGO To the INDIANS (New Flea), Kindness (Playwrights Perspectives), and Red-light Winter (Steppenwolf, Scott Rudin Productions during the Barrow Street Theatre), which was entitled a finalist towards Pulitzer Prize. He has published eight books to own young people, like the Buffalo Tree (Front Road Instructions, 1997), which had been struck regarding training at Muhlenberg Senior high school into the Training, Pennsylvania in 2005, and you may Punkzilla (Candlewick Force, 2009), that was has just called a beneficial 2010 Michael J. Printz Honor Publication.