Who is Rhombus?

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  Joe Byers is the author of Uncle Dan: A Valentine, presented in New York by both the Lark and the Abingdon Theatres and in Boston by Centastage Performance Group. Centastage also produced Joe's Shakerman, winner of the Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Foundation Competition. TightAss: A Musical Bloodbath (based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus) was featured in the Theater Offensive's Out on the Edge Festival in Boston. Pee Shy was a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award, and The Woman with No Nose won the Palm Springs National Short Play Fest. Joe's most recent play, Veils, was commissioned and produced by the Diverse City Theater Company in New York. Much as he loves writing plays, Joe would almost always rather be body-surfing.
• Carl Danielson is a Cambridge playwright and a member of the Polyester McFadden internet comedy group. His election-eve comedy show will be featured at the Piano Factory Theatre November 1-3, and his first full-length production will open in February 2009. He has worked with Theatre on Fire, Theatre @ First, Centastage, Southcity Theater, Shadow Boxing, Hovey Players, Mill City Minutes, Arlington Players, and has been featured in the Boston Theater Marathon. His plays have been featured at Ratutu Collaborative and the American Globe Theatre in New York City.
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  Patrick Gabridge has written numerous plays, including Constant State of Panic, Pieces of Whitey, Blinders, and Reading the Mind of God, which have been staged in theatres across the country. He is a 2010 Huntington Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company. His first novel, Tornado Siren, was published by Behler Publications in 2006. He seems to like to start things: in addition to helping start Rhombus, he co founded the Chameleon Stage theatre company in Denver, the Bare Bones Theatre company in New York, the publication Market InSight... for Playwrights, and the on-line Playwrights' Submission Binge. His plays are published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer, Smith & Kraus, Original Works Publishers, and Volcano Quarterly. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a board member of StageSource. Patrick's radio plays have been broadcast on NPR and elsewhere. He blogs about the writing life at The Writing Life x3.
• Kirsten Greenidge Recently a Huntington Theatre Playwrighting Fellow, Kirsten's recent work includes Milk Like Sugar (commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse/TheatreMasters), The Luck of the Irish (originally commissioned by South Coast Repertory and recommissioned by Huntington Theatre Company), and Rust. Kirsten's work combines elements of magical realism with a pronounced use of language: the result is a body of plays that possesses a heightened sense of realism while exploring how race, class, and culture intersect in these United States of America. She was recently NEA/TCG playwright in residence at Woolly Mammoth, and is also playwright in residence at CompanyOne, which has produced numerous plays by Kirsten, including 103 Within the Veil, A More Perfect Union, and The Gibson Girl as well as frequent ten minute plays in Boston's Ten Minute Play Marathon. Kirsten has enjoyed experiences at Sundance (Utah and Ucross), Magic Theatre, NNPN, Cardinal Stage, South Coast, Pacific Playwrights, Madison Rep, Page 73, Hourglass, Bay Area Playwrights, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, The Taper, A.S.K., the O'Neill, the Guthrie, Mixed Blood, McCarter Shorts, Humana Festival, Moxie, and New Georges. Last fall Kirsten was awarded Sundance's Time Warner Award (Bossa Nova). Additional work includes: The Curious Walk of the Salamander, and Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land. Kirsten attended Wesleyan and The Playwright's Workshop/University of Iowa and is a member of New Dramatists and Rhombus. She is currently working on a commission from Yale Repertory Theatre.
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  Ginger Lazarus Ginger Lazarus is an award-winning playwright whose work has been frequently produced in her native Boston and beyond. Her most recent project was A Blessing and a Curse: A Duet of Plays on Motherhood, an evening of two of her one-act plays presented by Spiced Wine Productions. One of her plays, Mary, has been made into a short film. Her play Matter Familias received an IRNE nomination for Best New Play of 2004; other honors include the 1999 John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for MOCKBA: A Play About Moscow and selection as a ten-minute play finalist in the 2002 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Shooting Sparks. Her plays have been copiously produced in the Boston area and have been featured nationally in Untitled Theater's 24/7 Festival (New York), Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, Pan Theater Ten Minute Play Festival (San Francisco), Bloody Unicorn Theater Company's Lesbian Shorts (Tucson), and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab (Valdez, Alaska). Two of her short plays also appeared at the Warehouse Theatre and Canal Café Theatre in London. Ginger holds a master's degree in playwriting from Boston University and has taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Emerson College. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
• K. Alexa Mavromatis is a Providence-based playwright who tends to spend a lot of time in Boston. Her play THE BACK ROOM was the 2008 third place winner of the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, presented by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is also the author of several short plays including BASTARD (a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award in 2008), BONE CHINA (produced internationally and included in the Smith & Kraus anthology 2006: The Best Ten-Minute Plays for Two Actors), and a new post-apocalyptic comedy JINXED!. Alexa is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and is working to complete her MFA in playwriting at Boston University...a degree she vows to finish (eventually).

Past members of Rhombus include: Leslie Harrell Dillen, Kathleen Rogers, Mike Manship, John Shea, and Ken Urban.