Lisa Soland’s first play, The Name Game was published by Samuel French, she received the Artistic Director Achievement award for her original comedy, Happy Birthday, Baby! and her drama The ReBirth won her the Hawthornden Fellowship. Cabo San Lucas received first prize in the 2004 Scriptwriting/Houston National Playwriting Contest and the American Theatre Co-op 2005 contest for one-act plays. Ms. Soland’s comedy Waiting is included in Smith and Kraus’ anthology Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2003, and monologues from Cabo San Lucas and Waiting are in Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2003. Monologues from The ReBirth, Red Roses and Waiting can also be found in Applause Books’ The Best Women’s Monologues for the Millennium and The Best Men’s Monolgoues for the Millennium. Her ten-minute plays have received numerous productions as well as publications. She led the 10-Minute Play Competition at the Florida Theatre Conference in Lakeland, FL for 2006 and is scheduled to do so again for 2007. In 2006, Ms. Soland headed up the M.F.A. playwriting program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She lives in Los Angeles where she has worked as an actress, singer, director and producer, but primarily now as a playwright, with her work being produced around the globe. www.LisaSoland.com