CLARK, SEAN   Iowa City, 1987-88 
Sean earned his MFA in playwriting at the University of Iowa in 1988, winning several prizes while doing so. He has since been associated with some of the most popular and critically acclaimed television programs of the past decade, writing for Northern Exposure and The Commish, story-editing for Coach and Evening Shade, and acting as a consulting producer on Sirens and Sliders and a supervising producer on Early Edition. He currently directs the Graduate Screenwriting Program at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

COFFEY, DAN Iowa City,  1989 
Dan Coffey (MFA, The University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop) is a founder of the Duck's Breath Mystery Theater, perhaps best known to NPR listeners as "Dr. Science." In addition to his radio appearances, Dr. Science has been featured on a television special, Dr. Science's National Science Test, PBS 1985, and a children's show, Dr. Science, which ran on Fox TV in 1987. Coffey is co-author of two books, Dr. Science's Big Book of Science, Simplified (Contemporary, 1985) and Dr. Science's Book of Shocking Domestic         Revelations (William Morrow, 1993). He has taught radio and television writing as well as performance in The University of Iowa's Department of Communication Studies. For three years, he directed the Iowa Radio Project, a radio theater series distributed on public radio. Most recently, he was the original host of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!

DANNENFELSER, DAVID  New York (HOME) 1990 
David Dannenfelser is artistic director of Icarus Theatre Ensemble, which is presenting the first annual Ilium Theatre Festival. David is also a playwright whose play, When Words Fail…, is published in Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium.
(www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/v_dannenfelser.htm)

DE LA PUENTE, NOEMI  Iowa City, 1997 
Noemi is a member of SAG and AFTRA and an AEA Eligible Performer who has appeared on stage and television in numerous roles since she graduated from Iowa with her MFA in acting. She has performed in the National Theater of the Performing Arts, Delaware Theatre Company, and Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. She was also a long time member of the improv comedy troop Loos Scrooz. As a playwright, her work has been performed in New York, where she is a member of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre's Writers Group. In 2001 she became the Associate Artistic Director of the Carolinian Shakespeare Festival. (www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/elx99/delapuen.html)

ENSENBERGER, FRANK  Iowa City, 1986-89
A graduate of the University of Iowa, Frank is a member of the Adobe Theatre Company in Manhattan, and has appeared in 5 shows: Duet! A Romantic Fable (Lud, Stump, Office Boy, Cop), Fish Story (Klaus Klaude), Poona the Fuckdog (Rabbit), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Cupid), and Tracker (Wineglass).

F-S, KATIE  Cedar Falls, 2001-02
A "traveling performance poet" who's shouted to audiences across the Midwest, Katie is most recently working on her second chapbook, initiating a youth poetry league in the  Cedar Falls and Waterloo high schools, and casting her original one-act poetic explosion IN:VERSE, which will open at UNI in November.

FALDUTO, MATTHEW  Iowa City, 1993-95 
After graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in English, Matthew decided to fulfill his dream of starting a theatre company. The company he founded, Dreamwell    Theatre, continues to thrive. His acting credits include "Paul" in Barefoot in the Park, "George" in Of Mice and Men, "Edward" in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, "King Philip" in The Lion in Winter, "Andrew" in Love Letters, and "Philip" in Corpus Christi. Directing   credits include The Hobbit, Wait Until Dark, How To Sell a Chair, Intellectual Orgasms, and Law Number One; both of which he also wrote.   
(www.dreamwell.com/)