Jon Kern’s plays include Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them (Second Stage Theatre), We in Silence Hear a Whisper (Red Fern Theatre Co.), Do Not Disturb: a hotel experience (Roma B.), and Hate the Loser Inside (2013 Marathon at Ensemble Studio Theatre). Member: Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Alumnus: Ars Nova Play Group, Civilians R&D Group, EST/Youngblood. Awards: 2010-2011 Van Lier Fellowship from New Dramatists, 2012 Laurents/Hatcher Prize. University of Chicago (BA), Columbia University (MFA). Currently, he is on the writing staff of The Simpsons.