ROBERT CLYMAN (Playwright) Robert Clyman’s plays have been performed off-Broadway and in such theatres as the Denver Center Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Colony Studio Theatre (Los Angeles), Missouri Rep and Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke, Virginia), George St. Playhouse, in addition to touring in Scotland. He has also been awarded a number of national prizes such as the Eugene O’Neil Summer Conference Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Award, Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship, and Shenandoah Valley Playwrights Fellowship. His play, Famous Ali, was commissioned by Playwrights Theatre for Rowing to America: The Immigrant Project. Two other plays by Clyman have also been developed by PTNJ; Where the Sun Never Sets, a staged reading in the fall of 1994, and Sigmund Freud: the Untold Story, which has since been presented in New York by the Abingdon Theatre Company under the title of Siggy. The Lower Cortex was presented in a workshop production at Playwrights Theatre in May of 1996, after first being developed at a lab production at the Circle Repertory Company in New York City. Clyman is also a clinical psychologist with a practice in Oldwick.