Kate Shindle, Gerard Canonico and More Set for Bobby Cronin's CONCRETE JUNGLE Album Release Concert, 3/6

CRYSTAL SKILLMAN is the award-winning author of CUT (The Management in Spring 2011; NY Times critic's pick) VIGIL or THE GUIDED CRADLE (ITG/Brick; 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script); and BIRTHDAY & NOBODY (Directed by Daniel Talbott for Rising Phoenix Rep in NYC; U.K Premiere with Kibbo Productions; Chicago at The Side Project). Her play WILD debuted in Chicago at Mary-Arrchie Theatre this June with Kid Brooklyn Productions. Her work was also featured in Chicago this summer in Collaboraction's Sketch-book Theater Festival with a new play commission for The New Colony. In NYC this spring WILD was featured Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel as part of MCC Theater Playwrights' Coalition Playlabs, ANOTHER KIND OF LOVE was workshopped at IRT/Overturn Theatre, and CUT finished a run in Boston at Apollinaire Theatre. Crystal, one of Manhattan's "Best Ofs" for OurTownNY magazine, was recently featured as a writer to watch in the Huffington Post, selected as one of nytheatre.com's fifteen People of the Year for 2011, and was one of six writers chosen for Terra Nova 2011-12 Groundbreakers' Group. She is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights' Coalition, Amoralists Lab, Rising Phoenix, and a Women's Project Lab as well as Soho Rep Lab alumni. GEEK, her upcoming new play for Obie-Award Winning Vampire Cowboys, will premiere in Spring 2013 under the direction of Robert Ross Parker. Crystal is currently working on FOLLOW, a new play for director Daniel Talbott, opening this October.

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