TOM COASH (Playwright) A playwright and director, Mr. Coash is also currently employed as the Director of New Play Development for Stageworks/Hudson, an Equity theater in upstate NY. Prior to Hudson, he spent three years in Bermuda where he directed the film BABY...WAIT and produced the Famous For 15 Minutes New Play Festival. Coash spent four years teaching playwriting at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. He has had numerous productions of his plays both here and abroad and has worked for such theatres as the Manhattan Theatre Club and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Coash has won several playwriting awards including Ensemble Studio Theatre¹s Hammerstein Emerging Playwright Award, The Kennedy Center¹s Lorraine Hansberry Award, and a year as a Jerome Playwriting Fellow at the Minneapolis Playwrights¹ Center. Mr. Coash's latest projects include directing five new one-acts as part of Stageworks/Hudson's Play By Play Festival (including world premieres by Allan Knee and Israel Horovitz), working on a new play commissioned by the Afred P. Sloan Foundation, and founding The Play Factory, a playwrights' collective in New Haven, CT.