The Directors and Playwrights of Emergence IV Karen Law has been involved in the theatre scene since the age of 14. She has been involved in such productions as “Othello,” “Hair,” “King and I” and “Pal Joey.” She has worked with Shoe String Players, Radiant Theatre, and Portland State University. Her current objective is to finish her masters in Irish Film and Theatre. She is currently involved with a brand new theatre company called Third Eye, whose first show premiers in October 2006. Sandra Hosking’s work has appeared in InSight for Playwrights, Literary Salt, Midwest Book Review, and anthologies by Smith & Kraus and Meriwether Publishing Ltd. Her plays have been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Canada, and elsewhere. She is a Spokane, Wash.-based journalist who has interviewed such established playwrights as Beth Henley, Horton and Daisy Foote, Steven Dietz, and Jeffrey Sweet. Hosking is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the International Centre for Women Playwrights. Check her website at ww.geocities.com/sandrahosking/Sandrahosking.htm Sarah Tuck has been working in and around theatre for nearly 12 years. She has worked with designers, performers and directors, aged between 6 and 60, semi-professionally and professionally as both an actress and a director. Over the years she has earned a Degree in the Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon, written and directed her own unique blacklight production, “The Dreaming,” and is presently teaching acting workshops for children. She is excited to be working with such a talented cast for her Portland debut. Helen Hill's play "Missing Matter" won the Chameleon Theatre Circle Award and took 2nd in the San Juan College National Play Contest. "Time Out of Mind", about Oregon's Ku Klux Klan, toured high schools and universities as a tool to address intolerance and was a finalist in Stage Three's 2004 Festival. "The Filmore Hotel" toured Oregon and Washington in 2004 with a cast of residents from Dignity Village, a homeless encampment in Portland, Oregon. "Big Crunch" was a finalist in New York City's Strawberry Festival and was published in the season's anthology of best plays. Helen lives on the Oregon coast and is the founder of BC ACT: the Bay City Arts Center Theatre. Amy Gray is the Director of ShakesProv, applying Commedia and contemporary improv techniques to fully improvised and engaging period comedy. She most recently directed The Wooden Boy in April 2004 for the Oregon Symphony. A longtime company member of Tears of Joy Theatre, she has contributed by performing, designing, writing and directing. Amy is a founding member of ComedySportz Portland, performing improv professionally for the past eleven years. In September 2003, Amy directed a fun and controversial “Waiting for Godot” for Radiant Theatre. Amy self-produces 'educomedy' shows under her company Zing Productions, and is currently performing an original Lewis and Clark mockumentary puppet show with Dragon Puppet Theatre. Amy teaches workshops for all levels in improv and mask technique, and is known for her innovative work with kids, clowns and ballerinas. Elena Naskova was born and raised in Macedonia. Her credits include a staged reading of her ten-minute play “Meteorite Shower” at the Los Feliz Public Library; a staged reading of her full-length play "Tom's Girls” at the EMERGENCE Radiant Theatre's Second Annual Women’s Playwright Festival in Portland; a staged reading of her ten-minute play “New Beginning” at the Secret Rose Theater in North Hollywood (which was also one of the winners of the Speaking Ring Theatre Company's Third Annual One-Act Playwriting Contest & Festival in Chicago). Her ten-minute play “Mary and Eddie” was a semifinalist at the 2005 Lakeshore Players Ten-Minute Play Competition and was a semifinalist at the 2005 Havemeyer Playwright Competition; and her short play “Cookies and Toothpicks” was a semifinalist at the Short and Sweet Festival and her one act play “The Faithful Servant” was performed at the Nantucket One Act Festival. Her play “Tom’s Girls” was commended with an honorable mention at the Actor’s Theatre of Santa Cruz Full Length Play Competition. Zorwyn Ret Madrone is a director and performer who has called Portland home for the last eight years. While here, she has directed for the Young People's Theatre Project, Portland Actors Conservatory's Summer on Stage Program and the Emergence Festival. In addition to acting in contemporary work, Zorwyn also creates original story/movement performance pieces – most recently *Fireball in the Sky *at the Numinosity Wellness Center in NE Portland. This fall, she will enter the Master's of Fine Arts Program in Theater: Contemporary Performance at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Dori Appel lives in Ashland, Oregon and has written numerous plays including, “Hot Flashes” (currently running in Omaha, Nebraska!), “Demeter's Daughters,” “Girl Talk,” “Tilt,” “Freud's Girls,” “I'd Know You Anywhere,” “Fun House Mirror,” “When God Came to Babylon,” “Kitchen Tables,” “Mother, Tree, Cat,” “Lunatic Within” (Winner, Oregon Book Award in Drama, 1999), “Lost and Found” and “Tea Time.” Check her website at http://www.geocities.com/doriappel/. Sara Rudolph was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and has been active in the local theatre scene from an early age. She studied theatre arts at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon where she directed numerous productions. She directed “Much Ado About Nothing” and “The Miss Firecracker Contest” for HART and most recently worked as assistant director and dramaturge for the Triangle Productions show “Edward II.” Sara is happy to be back in Portland after a stint in San Francisco and is pleased to be directing her first show for Radiant Theatre Company. She is also excited to be able to utilize the extensive research that she conducted on feral children while working as a nanny to the very rich. Kamarie Chapman hails from Bellingham, Washington where she graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from Western Washington University. She has had several plays produced throughout Washington state, including: “Damn you, Edward Tootsie!,” “For You, Blue.,” and “Lester: An Examination of Tragedy.” Kamarie is thrilled and honored to have her first out-of-state production with The Radiant Theatre's Emergence Festival this summer. In the fall Kamarie will be moving to Albuquerque where she will continue her studies in dramatic writing with The University of New Mexico's established MFA program. Helena de Crespo is back for the third time as a director with the Emergence Festival sponsored by Radiant Theatre. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and The London Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she has worked on both sides of the Atlantic and Central and South America, where she takes pride in the work she has been able to do in encouraging women to express themselves in the arts, whether as writers, actresses, dancers, singers or painters. As an Arts Administrator in Washington, DC, she initiated the first Very Special Arts Festival in Northern Virginia where a platform was provided to those in the community who are more greatly challenged. Sandra de Helen’s play “My Alamo” was staged by Radiant Theatre, July 20, 2003. “Witch!” was presented at Stark Raving Theatre’s New Rave Festival in September 2002, and at the Women Playwrights International Conference in Manila Philippines in November, 2003. “Something's Got to Give” was showcased at Portland State University in 2001. “Raging Hormones,” a monodrama, was performed for in Paris, France. Next month, a young woman in Sydney, Australia will perform de Helen’s vampire monologue “Forever, Okay?” de Helen lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. Check her website at www.portland.quik.com/writer. Anna Soderberg has most recently directed “Jesus Christ Superstar” for Radiant Theatre after directing “HAiR!,” “Everyman” & (at past Emergence Festivals): “Burning Up,” “My Alamo,” “Romeo & Juliet: Part 2,” “Opening the Veils” & “Overcoming Art.” Other credits in Portland include: “Witch!” at Stark Raving Theatre’s New Rave Festival, “Pal Joey” for The Hillsboro Artists Repertory Theater, the children’s chorus for The 2002 Christmas Revels and Janea Rae Boyle’s “Fleeing Grace.” Anna is a founding member of The Open Circle Theatre Ensemble that was recently nominated for four Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, DC. (where she began her directing career at the Source Theatre’s One-Act Festival). Please check her website at http://www.radianttheatre.org.