Nicole Burton's plays include Swimming Up the Sun, Fred & Frieda, Dirty Questions, and Starman, Wish Me Luck. They've been produced at Arena Stage (Capital Fringe Festival), Roundhouse Theater, Source Theater, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, MetroStage, the Greenbelt Arts Center, the University of District of Columbia, House of Ruth Homeless Shelter, and the U.S. Capitol. As resident playwright of Everyday Theater, she co-authored six plays about gentrification and violent crime in Washington, D.C. She's the author of a debut novel, Adamson's 1969 and Swimming Up the Sun: A Memoir of Adoption.  A member of the Dramatists Guild and Pipeline Playwrights, Nicole lives in Riverdale Park, MD. www.nicolejburton.com