Susan Yankowitz is a playwright, librettist and novelist whose work has been called ‘moving and poetic’ by the LA Times; ‘magnificent…scorching’ by NPR; and ‘breathtaking’ by the NY Times, the Scotsman, and Pretoria News. Among the best-known are Terminal and 1969 Terminal 1996 (with Joseph Chaikin’s Open Theatre), A Knife in the Heart, Night Sky, Phaedra in Delirium and Thumbprint, her opera (with Kamala Sankaram) about Mukhtar Mai which will have its fourth production at Chautauqua next summer. Her play Gun will be published by Bloomsbury/Methuen in February 2020, and she has been commissioned by LATW to write a play about Susan B. Anthony, also for 2020. Her latest is titled The Crazy But True Tragical-Farcical Trial Of Madame P, wherein a Pig and Various 4-Legged and Winged Creatures are Prosecuted for Theft, Murder, Bestiality and Diverse Crimes against Humankind. Her work has been translated into 27 languages and produced throughout the world. www.susanyankowitz.com