Christopher Shinn and Jarrett Dapier

Christopher Shinn is an Obie Award-winning New York playwright whose play, Dying City, was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His new play, Picked, will premiere at New York’s Vineyard Theatre in March 2011.

Jarrett Dapier is a former assistant publisher at In These Times and currently a readers’ adviser and theatre director working with young adults at Evanston Public Library in Evanston, Ill.