Crystal Skillman is the award-winning author of Cut; Vigil, or The Guided Cradle 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 just debuted in Chicago this June with Kid Brooklyn Productions, under the direction of Evan Caccioppoli. Ms. Skillman, one of Manhattan's “Best Ofs” for OurTownNY magazine, was selected as one of nytheatre.com’s fifteen People of the Year for 2011, and is one of six writers chosen for Terra Nova 2012 Groundbreakers’ Group with her play 4 Edges. She is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, Rising Phoenix, a Women’s Project Lab alumni, and was nominated for this year’s Doric Wilson Award. Geek, her upcoming new play for Obie-Award Winning Vampire Cowboys will premiere in Spring 2013 under the direction of Robert Ross Parker. Currently Ms. Skillman is working on a new play for director Daniel Talbott to be produced this fall.