DED MARGOLIN (playwright/performer) is a playwright, performance artist, and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. She is the author of nine full-length solo performance pieces, which she has toured throughout the United States, and is the recipient of the 1999-2000 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Deb’s work has been commissioned by The Jewish Museum of New York, Actors Theatre of Louisville, PS122, and Middle Tennessee State University. Her multi-character play Three Seconds in the Key, commissioned by the New York Public Theater and premiered by New Georges in New York, won the 2005 Kesselring Prize for Playwriting, followed by a production at the San Francisco Playhouse. A book of Margolin’s plays and performance pieces, entitled Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. Deb Margolin lives in New Jersey, which she denies. She was honored to accept the 2008 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Award. Her most recent multi-character play, Imagining Madoff, is currently running in several regional theaters.  deb-margolin.com