DOUGLAS POST is a playwright, composer and lyricist whose works for the stage have been produced in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, England, Wales, Germany, Austria, Estonia, Russia, China and South Africa. He has also been commissioned to write screenplays for Warner Bros. and NBC, teleplays for WMAQ-TV, and several radio adaptations of his scripts. He has received the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, the Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award, the Cunningham Commission Award, the Blue Ink Playwriting Award and three Playwriting Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and has been nominated for three Joseph Jefferson Awards, a Suzi Bass Award and an Emmy Award. Mr. Post lives in Chicago where he is President of Long River Records, has composed songs and incidental music for over twenty-five productions, teaches playwriting and theatre appreciation at the University of Chicago Graham School.
