Trista Baldwin

is pleased to be writing with Thirst again. Trista lives inMinneapolis, from New York and Seattle, by way of generous JeromeFellowships and a McKnight Advancement Grant. Recent work includes

Mesujika Doe

(Morishta Studio, Japan) with Tokyo artist ShirotamaHitsujiya, and

American Sexy

(The Guthrie). Trista is a Core Member of The Playwrights’ Center and one of the founders of Workhaus Collective.She teaches screen and playwriting at St. Cloud State University. Her plays

Sand

Patty Red Pants

, and others are available from Playscripts.

Patrick Coyle

just completed writing and directing work on his secondfeature film,

Into Temptation

, starring Kristin Chenoweth, Jeremy Sisto,and Brian Baumgartner. His first feature film,

Detective Fiction

, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, with several awards on thefestival circuit. He was awarded the IFP McKnight ScreenwritingFellowship in 2005. His newest screenplay begins shooting in 2010. Herecently appeared as Lou Grant in

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

at TorchTheatre. Coyle lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughters.

Matt Dawson

writes for Go2 Media, is a founding member of No RefundsTheatre Co. and works freelance in production and technical theater inonly the finest of Twin Cities establishments. He fights crime in his sparetime.

Matthew A. Everett

has another short play right now across town at theBryant Lake Bowl, Fridays in February, as part of Masterworks: TheRembrandt Plays. He is a three-time recipient of support from theMinnesota State Arts Board, and a Drama-Logue Award for OutstandingWriting for the Theater. More information on Matthew and his writing can be found atmatthewaeverett.com. Scripts can be purchased atstores.lulu.com/matthewaeverett

Kim Hines

first set foot on the professional stage as a child member of theChildren's Theatre Company. She has performed at Mixed Blood Theater,Illusion Theater, Penumbra Theater and the Guthrie Theatre. Kim'swritten work has been staged in the Twin Cities and throughout the U.S.Kim has directed for Theater Mu, Park Square, Theater in the Round, TheGreat American History Theater, Illusion Theater, Augsburg College, andother universities around the country. In 1997 she received the BushFellowship for playwriting. She has had an active role in the developmentof many local theater projects.

Cory Hinkle

’s plays have been produced or developed at the Guthrie,Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, ART, Williamstown Theater Festival, theSPF Summer Play Festival, Illusion Theater, Rattlestick, SalvageVanguard, Workhaus Collective, P73 Productions, Hangar Theater, andRed Eye Collective, with commissioned works for the Guthrie and Actor’sTheater of Louisville. He is a Core Member of and received two Jeromefellowships through the Playwrights’ Center, and he is a member playwright of the Workhaus Collective. Cory earned his MFA inPlaywriting from Brown University.A displaced Texan living in Minneapolis,

Allison Moore

is a CoreMember of The Playwrights' Center. Her plays include

Hazard County, Eighteen, Urgent Fury, The Strange Misadventures of Patty,CowTown,

and

American Klepto

; have been developed or read at theO'Neill Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, InterActTheatre, and Manhattan Theatre Club; and have been produced at theCherry Lane Alternative, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Actor's Express, ActorsTheatre of Louisville, and The Playwrights' Center, among others. She hasreceived three fellowships and a McKnight Grant. She graduated fromSMU and received her MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop.

Tom Poole

’s three new plays are, in order of ascending freshness:

The Amorous Education of Nicholas Haycock, The Body

, and

Safe As Houses

.His work has been produced at Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Magic Theatre(San Francisco), The Children’s Theatre Company, Park Square Theatre,and lots of other places. Honors include fellowships from the Jerome,McKnight, and Divine Foundations, an Emmy award, and more. More biographical information is available any time he has a drink.

Matt Sciple

, a City Pages Artist of the Year for 2007, has directed, performed in or written more than 100 plays for theaters across Minnesota,including Park Square Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Gremlin Theater (directing

Orson's Shadow

, the 2008 Ivey Award Winner for BestEnsemble) and Thirst Theater (

Carpe du Jour

).A critically acclaimed actor, playwright,

Joseph Scrimshaw

is the creativedirector of Joking Envelope, LLC—a comedy production company. Hiswork has been described as “intelligent and accessible” by Twin CitiesDaily Planet and “hilarious with a whiff of danger” by Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He’s written new work for The History Theater, The MNHistorical Society and more as well as multiple top ten shows at theMinnesota Fringe Festival. His plays have been performed in Chicago, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Indianapolis, the UK, Bulgaria, and countless bars and bowling alleys across the entire expanse of South Minneapolis.