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MARK O’DONNELL’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, Spy and other journals. His books include GETTING OVER HOMER, LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION and VERTIGO PARK.  He won a Tony as the co-author of the musical HAIRSPRAY.

RICH ORLOFF has written a dozen award-winning full-length comedies (A CAPITAL AFFAIR just closed in Vienna) and oodles of hilarious short plays. Five of his one-act comedies have been published in the annual Best American Short Plays anthology and two in the Best Ten-Minute Playsseries. Playscripts has published 60 of his short plays in eight collections.  His short plays have had over 700 productions on six continents (and a staged reading in Antarctica).  His new comedy SKIN DEEP will be produced by the Foolish Theatre Company in October. www.richorloff.com.

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Tetched and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. His new novel, Haywire, is forthcoming from Starcherone, an imprint of Dzanc Books. He teaches literature at City University of New York and fiction writing at the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA. www.thaddeusrutkowski.com.

Greg Sanders is the author of Motel Girl: Stories(Red Hen Press, 2008). His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and journals over the years, with two stories forthcoming in the Writing in Schools anthologies (also Red Hen Press), due out this fall. He’s at work on a second collection of stories, lives in the East Village, and makes his living as a technical writer for Google. More at www.gregorysanders.com.

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition that readings should be by 1) good writers; 2) who read their work well; and 3) something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts). And 15 minutes tops.