Sara Jean Accuardi is an award-winning playwright whose works include The Storyteller (Artists Repertory Theatre), The Delays (Theatre Vertigo), < 3 (Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), CHICK FIGHT! A RECKONING IN 9 MOVEMENTS (Shaking the Tree Theatre, Artemis Theatre Project ), BREAK (Valdez Theatre Conference), and Portrait of the Widow Kinski (Vivid Stage, JAW New Play Festival), among others. She has received the Oregon Book Award for Drama, the James F. and Marion L. Miller Spark Award for Oregon Artists, the Drammy Award for Outstanding Original Script, the Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship for Drama, and was the inaugural winner of the International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Competition. Sara Jean is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and LineStorm Playwrights. She holds an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University.