Brian James Polak is an award-winning playwright born and raised in New Hampshire. His plays have been presented at venues and schools around the country, and have been published by Smith & Kraus, Talon Review, Commonplace Books, NoPassport Press, Next Stage Press, and Canyon Voices. He has been awarded the Jean Kennedy Smith and John Cauble Awards from The Kennedy Center and an Elliot Norton Award (co-recipient for P.S. Page Me Later). For ten years he has hosted and produced American Theatre magazine’s “The Subtext,” a playwright-centered podcast. He received his MFA from the University of Southern California.