KIRK WOOD BROMLEY is a NYC-based playwright, actor, theater writer, musician, and Artistic Director and Playwright for Inverse Theater Company. His produced plays include All Must Be Admitted (self-directed, Moving Circle Space, 1992), The Burnt Woman of Harvard (directed by Douglas Matranga, Soho Rep, 1994; Howard Thoresen, CSV, 2001), The Beggars Opera (directed by Christopher Sanderson, Grand Central Station and Tribeca Lab, 1995), Want’s Unwished Work (directed by Aaron Beall, NADA, 1996; Alexander Yannis Stephano, Sacred Fools - LA, 1999 and NYC, 2000; Michael Goldblatt, Wesleyan University, 2003), The Sickness and the Cure (directed by Emma Griffin, Nada, 1997), Icarus and Aria (directed by Aaron Beall, The Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe and The House of Candles, 1997; Dean Irby, SUNY-Purchase, 1999; Alexander Yannis Stephano, Sacred Fools - LA, 2000), Faust - The Musical (directed by Christopher Sanderson, music by Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors, The House of Candles, 1997 and 1998), Lost Labor's Loved (directed by Kirsten Ames, NADA, 1998), The Death of Griffin Hunter (directed by Emma Griffin, Soho Rep, 1998; Theater of Note, Los Angeles, Sep/Oct, 2004), The American Revolution (directed by Emma Griffin, The Cornelia Connelly Theater, 1999; Howard Thoresen, Central Park and New York Fringe Festival, 2002 and 2003; Bad Epitaph Theater Company, Cleveland, OH, June/July 2004), Midnight Brainwash Revival (directed by Howard Thoresen, The Kraine Theater, 1999; Ben Yalom, foolsFURY in San Francisco, 2001; Joshua Spafford, CSV, 2001 and 2002; Alexander Yannis Stephano, Sacred Fools, LA, 2004), The Death of Don Flagrante Delicto (directed by Howard Thoresen, Greenwich St. Theater, 2000; produced by Theatre of Note, Los Angeles, 2004), The Burnt Woman of Harvard (directed by Howard Thoresen, CSV, 2001), Syndrome (directed by Rob Urbinati, Greenwich Street and Finborough Arms in London, 2002), Lost – The Musical (directed by Rob Urbinati, New York Fringe Festival and Connelly, 2003), On the Origin of Darwin (directed by Joshua Spafford, Cornelia Connelly Theater, 2004), The Banger’s Flopera (directed by Ben Yalom, NY Int’l Fringe Festival and the NY Musical Theater Festival, 2005), Three Dollar Bill (directed by Howard Thoresen, Center Stage, NY, 2005), and The American Shakespeare Thing (directed by the Rembiko Project, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2005). Inverse Theater won Best Downtown Theater in the New York Press in 2001, he is the recipient of the 2001 Berrilla Kerr Foundation Playwrights Award, and his plays have won two Fringe Awards – Excellence in Playwriting (2002) and Excellence in Music and Lyrics (2003). Inverse Theater won the first ever Caffe Cino Award for Excellence in Off-Off-Broadway by the New York Innovative Theater Awards. And The Banger’s Flopera was named “One of the Top Three Musicals” in fringeNYC 2005 by The American Theater Web and “Outstanding New Musical” by Talkin’ Broadway. He has taught playwriting at Stanford University and the National Book Foundation Summer Writer’s Camp, and he has given speeches and/or seminars at SUNY-Purchase (Purchase, NY), Monroe College (Bronx, NY), Fringe U. and Trinity School (NYC). His writings on theater have been featured at theatermania.com, nytheater.com, and Backstage. Midnight Brainwash Revival was anthologized in “Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium,” published by the NY Theater Experience. In December 2004, his new play, On the Origin of Darwin, was presented by Inverse Theater at the Connelly Theater in NYC. In the summer of 2005 the Rembiko Project of Los Angeles presented his play, The American Shakespeare Thing, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Information on him, his plays, and his theater company can be found at www.inversetheater.org.