Joe Waechter is a 2011-12 Jerome Fellow at The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. His plays include Lake Untersee, The Strangler, Profiles, and The Memory Library. His work has been developed or produced at Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, A.R.T., McCarter Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Red Eye Theatre, Perishable Theatre, The 25¢ Opera of San Francisco, 24Seven Lab, and Electric Pear. He is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, the Weston Award in Playwriting, and a two-time recipient of awards from the Kennedy Center/ACTF at regional and national levels. In 2010, he founded The Awesome Collective, an interdisciplinary company exploring new methods and vocabularies for collaboration in Providence, Rhode Island. He is currently developing a new play about the Icelandic landscape, elves, and the beginning of the world.