Jennifer A. Kokai is a playwright, director, and historian who teaches at Weber State University. She is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild, the Utah Playwright’s Collective, and the Plan-B Theatre Company Playwriting Lab. Her play ZOMBIE THOUGHTS, co-written with Oliver Kokai-Means recently toured Utah with Plan-B Theatre, is touring the Washington DC area with Building Better People Productions, and was performed or read by St. Andrews Priory, Off-Key Anthem Collective, and State Fair Community College. Her play Girl of Glass was included in the Lark’s 2014 Playwright’s Week, was a 2015 O’Neill Semi-finalist and will be produced in New York City spring of 2019 with THML Theatre. She has also published the book Swim Pretty: Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature on mermaids and aquatic spectacles with Southern Illinois University Press.