David E. Tolchinsky is the Founder/Co-Director of Northwestern University’s MFA in Writing for Screen+Stage program. He is a longtime screenwriter and a fairly new playwright and director. His work often involves teenagers, dystopias, the figure of the psychiatrist and unraveling structures. Lately, his work has been centering on health and illness in the modern world, especially illnesses that are not easily explainable. In 2015, he was voted Best Director for the New York production of his play, Where's the Rest of Me? (which was nominated for Best Play). He co-curated Sick by Seven (seven plays/films about mental health in the modern world) at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago as part of its Incubator Series. Recently, he directed his full-length play about the rogue psychologist Wilhelm Reich, An Attempt to Heal in the Contemporary World, at the HB Studios Playwrights Theatre in NY, and was no. 7 on New City's Film 50 2017: Chicago Screen Gems . His film credits include the experimental narrative Creature Companion (co-producer); the psychological thriller Cassandra (writer/director), the documentary Fast Talk (co-producer), the dramatic thriller The Coming of Age (co-producer/screenwriter), the dark comedy Girl (associate producer/screenwriter, from Sony, starring Selma Blair and Tara Reid, on iTunes), and the documentary St. Catherine’s Wedding Ring (co-producer/co-director, premiered at Sundance). More at davidetolchinsky.com