JOHN PIETROWSKI (Director) is the artistic director for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey and has been at PTNJ since its inception sixteen years ago, and in his current position at PTNJ for the past eleven years. At PTNJ, he has directed the Workshop Productions of Sally's Porch by Russell Davis, I See My Bones by Kitty Chen, Sister Calling My Name by Buzz McLaughlin and three shows in Rowing to America: The Immigrant Project. He has also directed productions of Acts of the Apostles, Mark's Gospel, and Genesis at PTNJ, the latter piece also moving to productions at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland and the Lamb's Theatre in NYC. Other New York productions include four short plays by Fred Stroppel and Any Friend of Percy D'Angelino Is a Friend of Mine, by Jason Milligan, at the West Bank Cafe, Song of Grendelyn by Russell Davis, at the Public Theatre and Alice's Fourth Floor, I See My Bones for Urban Stages, and other plays at the Actor's Outlet and Arts Club Theatre. He has directed two radio plays for the WNYC Radio Stage Consortium, St. Joe's Takes the Radio Stage and The Rehearsal, both of which have aired on National Public Radio. He also directed the stage adaptation of The Rehearsal, by J. Rufus Caleb, at the New Harmony Project. His two plays Black Madonna and The Buda have been performed at PTNJ, Foundation Theatre, Loaves and Fish Theatre and Arts Club Theatre. Mr. Pietrowski was also the Program Coordinator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Theatre Program for Teachers and Playwrights from 1988-94. A graduate of Northwestern University's Performance Studies Department, he also holds an Masters of Public Administration in non-profit management from Seton Hall University and teaches acting, directing and theatre history at Drew University and Fairleigh Dickinson University.