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Christopher Borg, actor, director and now “Writer,” trained at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC & the University of Utah he’s worked the stage for 20+ years and is a member of three NY theatre companies including the award-winning NY Neo-Futurists who perform “Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind” every Fri & Sat night at the Kraine. His work with Emerging Artists & TOSOS led to 2 OOBR Awards, and nominations for a GLAAD Media Award, HX Award and an IT Award. NY credits include Chris Weikel’s “Penny Penniworth,” “Modern Living” at LaMama, “The Death of Griffin Hunter” for Inverse Theatre and David Bell’s 2008 Off-Broadway hit “The Play About the Naked Guy.”

Donnetta Lavinia Grays is an actor and writer. Her solo play the cowboy is dying (directed by Isaac Byrne) was produced by Coyote REP Theatre Company as part of their Lone Wolf Series. The original script of The B Factor was an Official Entry in the Women of Color Arts and Film Festival in 2003 and received a staged reading with TOSOS in 2009. Acting credits Broadway: WELL. Off-Broadway: Shipwrecked! An entertainment! (Primary Stages; Outer Critics Circle , Drama League Nominee). Television: LAW & ORDER: SVU, THE SOPRANOS. Film: THE WRESTLER. Donnetta is the Managing Director of Coyote REP? and is a member of TOSOS. Proud member AEA, SAG and AFTRA

Mark O’Donnell has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Spy and many other publications. Knopf has published four books by him, including the novels GETTING OVER HOMER and LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY. He won a Tony as the bookwriter of the Broadway musical HAIRSPRAY, and has had half a dozen plays produced off-Broadway.

Comedian and writer Eddie Sarfaty has appeared on The Today Show, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, Logo’s Wisecrack, and can currently be seen in the documentary, Laughing Matters...The Men. “Second Guessing-Grandma,” a story of Eddie’s that appeared in the anthology, When I Knew, was recently made into a short film starring Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant and has been screened at film festivals across the US as well as in Italy, Britain, and Brazil. Eddie’s first book, a collection of humorous essays entitled Mental: Funny in the Head will be released by Kensington Press July 1, 2009.

Drunken Careening Writers
is a monthly reading series dedicated to the proposition that readings should be by 1) good writers; 2) who read their work well; 3) something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts).