Lucy was nominated for the Directors Guild of America’s Lillian Gish Award for her screenplay adaptation of Eudora Welty’s The Hitchhikers. Her play Kabuki Medea was produced at the International Theatre Festival in Israel, the Durban Performing Arts Center in South Africa, the Kennedy Center, and the Berkeley Rep, where it won a Bay Area Critics Award. She also co-wrote Kabuki Faust, staged at the Civic Opera House in Chicago. Lucy holds an MFA in Speech, and Dialects coaching from the National Theatre Conservatory, and is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework teacher. As an actor, some of her favorite roles include Boo in The Last Night of Ballyhoo at the Fox Theatre in Denver, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at the Boulder Ensemble, and Judy Shepard in the HBO movie The Laramie Project. She’s currently working on the 5th edition of her textbook, The Art of Theatre, which more than 100,000 college students have used. Originally from Alabama, she lives in Denver with her husband, William Missouri Downs, and a chihuahua named Ollie.

Will has received two rolling premieres from the National New Play Network and has twice been a finalist at the Eugene O’Neill. The Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, the San Diego Rep, the Salt Lake City Acting Company, and the Actors Theatre of Charlotte are a few of the more than 300 theaters across the United States that have produced his plays. His comedies have also been performed in Spain, Canada, South Korea, South Africa, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Austria, Israel, India, England, and Slovenia. Will has published 14 plays with Concord, Playscripts, Heuer, TRW, and Next Stage Press. He has an MFA in acting from the University of Illinois and has directed 30 plays. In Hollywood, he earned an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA and wrote for several NBC sitcoms. In addition, he has published four books, including Screenplay: Writing the Picture and Naked Playwriting. His debut novel, Five Minutes from Chaos, was published last year, and he is currently working on his second. He lives in Denver with his wife, Lucy Wright, and a chihuahua named Ollie.