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Michael is proud to be a founding member of Flour City Theatre Company, as well as FCTC’s Managing Director. He currently teaches acting and playwriting at his alma mater, SUNY Brockport, and scriptwriting at RIT. Michael is a playwright, actor, director and producer. His plays include CHASING THE DRAGON (Carnegie Mellon University’s 2007 Winter New Play Festival), LANGUAGE FAILS, WHISPER, TRIPPING MAX and GRILLING. He has participated twice in The Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. A two-time recipient of the Schubert Fellowship for Dramatic Writing, Michael graduated with an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, and holds a BA in both English and Theatre from SUNY Brockport.

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Jason Williamson's plays have received performances or readings across the country, from his home state of North Carolina to Chicago to Alaska. His work has been seen at The Greensboro Fringe Festival, The Stone Leaf Theatre Festival, The Broach Theater, PS211, Speaking Ring Theatre, and The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, among other venues. His ten minute play, Breathing, Caterpillars, was a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman award in 2005. The Hymn Cage was a finalist for the 2006 O'Neill Conference. He is currently a semi-finalist for the 2007 O'Neill Conference with Goat Song for Asa Jacobs. His newest play, Ether Steeds, recently received a workshop production at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He will receive his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon in the spring of 2007.

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Christopher Dimond’s first musical, Homeless: The Musical (music by Suzanne Polak), premiered at Duquesne University (2006) where it will be remounted by Pittsburgh’s Summer Company this July. He wrote the lyrics for the song cycle Homemade Fusion (music by Michael Kooman), which debuted at Carnegie Mellon before transferring to Pittsburgh’s Civic Light Opera Cabaret Space (both 2006). He also contributed lyrics to productions of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (2006) and Brecht’s Man is Man (2006), both at Carnegie Mellon University.

His most recent musical, Dani Girl (music by Michael Kooman), was given a workshop production as part of CMU’s 2007 Winter New Plays Festival. Other works include Confessions of an 8th Grade Nobody (readings: CMU, 2006), Burying Barbie (winner: Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 8th Annual New Play Competition, 2007), It’s a Miserable Life (winner: Uncle Dickie’s Wicked Little Christmas II competition, 2004), and Shakespeare on Drugs (winner: Outstanding Production, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, 2002).

As a screenwriter, his animated feature Monkey Trials was the winner of CMU’s 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Competition.

Chris has taught playwriting at CMU, the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Suffield Academy, Chatham College Summer Arts and Music Day Camp, and Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School. He served as dramaturg for Pittsburgh City Theatre’s Young Playwrights’ Festival (2006) and is a two-time recipient of the Schubert Fellowship for Dramatic Writing (CMU). Chris is a graduate of Duquesne University and The University of Pennsylvania, and will receive his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University in May of 2007.

Labels: Bio, Class of 2007