New and visiting Erin Courtney received her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College.  She has had several plays published, most recently Demon Baby in Funny, Strange, Provocative: seven plays from Clubbed Thumb, 2007.  Erin has taught at Brooklyn College, the New School, NY and has offered numerous workshops through the New York Public Schools.  She joins the Department of Theatre Arts at Mount Holyoke College as a lecturer and will offer playwriting in the fall.  Talya Kingston, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hampshire College, specializes in theatre for social change and new play development. She received a B.A.(Hons) from Stirling University in Scotland and an M.F.A. in dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts. Kingston spent five years running the YouthAware TIE touring division of the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco. The YouthAware program reaches approximately 25,000 students throughout Northern California each year with programs that address such controversial issues as homophobia, HIV infection, and substance abuse. She subsequently held the position of Director of Education at Hartford Stage. Kingston currently reads script submissions for the Summer Play Festival in New York and Marin Theatre Company in California and teaches introduction to theater and play analysis at the University of Massachusetts. UMass Amherst welcomes guest lecturer Wayne Kramer, spring, costume. UMass Amherst welcomes guest lecturer Sarah Nelson, spring, costume. Brooke O'Harra is a co-founder of The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf. In addition to directing all Two-headed Calf productions, Brooke works as a free-lance director with an interest in new and experimental texts. Brooke has directed new texts by Ruth Margraff and Lisa D'Amour  and is developing a new play Maria/Stuart with playwright Jason Grote (a collaboration which began at the Soho Rep writers and directors lab). She is the recipient of the NEA/TCG Developing Directors Grant, a NYSCA directing grant, a Harp Artist in Residence, and a Drama League Directing fellow. She teaches upper level acting at NYU TSOA's Experimental Theatre Wing. She has studied and made theatre in Japan, Czech Republic, Poland, Indonesia, and Ghana. Brooke joins the faculty at Mount Holyoke College where she will teach performance and direct productions in the fall and spring. UMass Amherst welcomes guest lecturer Tom Shread, fall, Theater 100. Wendy Weckwerth received an MFA in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from Yale School of Drama, where she is also completing a DFA. Her current scholarship focuses on August Strindberg's history plays. In recent years she has taught at Colby, Dartmouth and Yale. She is a former Associate and Managing Editor of Theater. In fall 2007 she directed the premiere of her adaptation (with Jean Wagner) of Caldéron's Life Is a Dream at Colby College. She is the dramaturg for New York City-based Voice & Vision, a theater company that supports the development of new plays. She has also worked on projects presented at the Culture Project, P.S. 122, Ensemble Studio Theater, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale Cabaret. She has held staff positions at New York Theatre Workshop, Powerhouse/New York Stage & Film at Vassar, and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. In 2008-09, she will join the Theatre Arts faculty of Mount Holyoke College.