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                                                      (2009 New Play Series, March 14)                

 PAUL MEACHAM
While Mr. Meacham is most often found in the production end of theater, he has occasionally written for the stage keeping his creations in the realm of adaptations. While on the faculty of the University of Tennessee, he adapted the short-story, WILLIAM WILSON, by Edgar Allen Poe into a Television play which was produced and ran at various times for five years. He took three of Miguel Cervantes' one-act comedies (ENTREMESES) and combined them into a musical comedy, CHARLATANS, which ran Off-Off Broadway at the WPA Theatre. He has adapted Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL for both large and small casts , including a one-man version he performed at Tri-State Actors Theater in 2004. His present adaptation grew out of his previous efforts and out his thoughts about actors who work during the Christmas holidays.  Mr. Meacham continues to serve as Artistic Director of Tri-State Actors Theater, which he founded in 1988.

JUAN PABLO HERAS
 Juan Pablo Heras was born in Madrid in 1979.  He has studied at the University of Madrid and in Mexico and is currently completing a doctoral degree. He began working in theater in 1996 and in 2002 won the Young Artists' Prize for his play El hombre probable (Your Average Jose').  He later won the a prize for his Marilyn's Moustache (El bigote de Marilyn) which will be published in Rick Hite's translation in 2009. After several other plays both awarded and staged in Spain and Mexico, Juan Pablo won a year long fellowship from the Spanish Academy in Rome. During his year there (2006-07) he wrote Todos los caminos which was published by the University of Madrid in 2008 and which won the prestigious Valle Inclán prize the same year.

RICK HITE
Rick Hite writes and translates plays and poetry (from Spanish--six different writers) and has had the good fortune to see six plays and numerous poems published and seven productions of plays in NYC, Michigan, Virginia, and Northern Ireland. His translation of a play by Juan Pablo Heras (Marilyn’s Mustache) will be published in late 2009.. He was Professor of Theater for 30 years at Virginia Wesleyan College and holds degrees from Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, and Michigan State University. He is married to wife Bobbie and they have three children and three grandchildren.