Arlene Hutton is the author of eight full-length and three dozen one-act plays. She is the recipient of the 2010 Macy’s New Play Prize for Happy Worst Day Ever, commissioned by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and is best known for The Nibroc Trilogy, which includes Last Train to Nibroc (Drama League nomination for Best Play), See Rock City (In the Spirit of America Award), and Gulf View Drive (LA Weekly Theatre Award nomination and Ovation Award nomination). Her short play I Dream Before I Take My Stand, called “a new feminist classic” by The List, was published in Drama: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin) and has been translated into Chinese, Dutch and Romanian. A recipient of the Calloway Award, Hutton is a six-time Heineman Award finalist and a three-time winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Her plays have been produced in New York, London, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, and across the U.S. and are published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French and Playscripts.com. Hutton was twice named the Tennessee Williams Playwriting Fellow at Sewanee and the William Inge Fellow. A member of the Dramatists' Guild and an alumna of New Dramatists, she has held residencies at the Australian National Playwrights' Conference, MacDowell Colony, New Harmony Project and Yaddo, and has taught playwriting and improvisational theatre at schools around the country, currently dividing her time between New York City and South Carolina, where she teaches playwriting at the College of Charleston. She has been a featured artist at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska and on the faculty of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. "Had Arlene Hutton been around during Broadway's golden age,” David Nichols of the LA Times observed, “her finely wrought plays might rank with those of William Inge or Horton Foote. Among postmodern dramatists, Hutton stands apart, relying on traditional techniques in an era where such values grow ever rarer.”