Jaisey Bates, a misplaced Maine-iac in LA, writes and performs with her nomadic multicultural theater company, The Peoplehood (the-peoplehood.com). Her plays include THE DAY WE WERE BORN (finalist, Princess Grace Award and O'Neill National Playwrights Conference; honorable mention, Kilroys List; awarded Marin Theatre Company’s David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize; Judge’s Choice/Featured Play, Oklahoma City Theatre Company’s Native American New Play Festival) and REAL TIME, her fancydance variation on Whitman's Leaves of Grass, an ever-evolving multitude of mix-and-match one-act/mini plays and spoken word pieces. Education includes Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service (BSFS), American University in Cairo (Johns Hopkins SAIS/Fulbright) and Loyola Marymount (MA in English).