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Carolyn Gage
Carolyn Gage is a lesbian-feminist playwright, performer, director, and activist. The author of four books on lesbian theatre and forty plays, musicals, and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history. This year she was named a recipient of the Jeanine C. Rae Award for Women's Culture, given annually by Women in the Arts. Previous recipients include Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Nikki Giovanni, and Grethe Cammermeyer.
On the roster of the national speakers' bureau Speak Out!, Gage offers performances of her award-winning, one-woman show, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, as well as her a dramatic and provocative presentation on lesbian theatre history, "Lizzie Borden and Lesbian Theatre:Axes to Grind." In addition, she offers an actor workshop on non-traditional roles for women , incorporating work from her book Scenes and Monologues for Lesbian Actors.
Gage has won the Oregon Playwrights Award from the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts. She has also been awarded the Walden Writer's Fellowship from Lewis and Clark College, the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts Writer's Grant, and the Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant. She has been named national winner of the Nancy Dean Distinguished Playwriting Award, given annually at the Sisters on Stage Lesbian Theatre Conference in New York. She has received grants from the Eleanor Humes Haney Fund and Open Meadows Foundation in New York.
Most recently, Gage's tours have included the University of Colorado in Boulder, Gettysburg College, the University of Connecticut at both Stamford and Storrs, the University of Oregon at Eugene, the University of New England, SUNY Geneseo, Hollins University, the University of Virginia, the National Women's Music Festival, the National Women's Studies Association Conference, the United Kingdom Women's Studies Conference in Northern Ireland, and Women's Week at Provincetown. She was invited to perform in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the World Summit on Economic Sustainability.
The founder and director of three theatre companies, she is currently the artistic director of Cauldron and Labrys, an all-women theatre in Portland, Maine.
Denise Noe
Denise Noe lives in Atlanta, Georgia and writes regularly for The Caribbean Star. Many articles by her appear online at Crimelibrary.com. She is featured in Here and Now: Current Readings for Writers and Strategies for College Writing and has been published in The Humanist, Georgia Journal, The Lizzie Borden Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, The Gulf War Anthology, Light, Gauntlet, and other places.
Her chief interests are dinosaurs, the ape language experiments, and social welfare issues -- not necessarily in that order.
Terence L. Duniho
Terence Duniho (Nov. 13, 1940 - April 6, 2002) was the owner of Career Design, a vocalist, and a Lizzie Borden scholar. He was the husband of Simone Guenette. Born in Denver, a son of Louise (Brewer) Duniho of Fort Collins, Colo., and the late Ester E. Duniho, he had lived in Providence for 20 years. As a vocalist, he was a member of the Metropolitans Barber Shop Quartet, SPEBSQSA, and the Narragansett Bay Choral.
He is the author of several books on career management. He was working on a book on Lizzie Borden and his theory of the crimes when he passed away. Several of his articles on the case have appeared in the Lizzie Borden Quarterly.