ROBERT O'HARA received a 2006 OBIE Award for his Direction of IN THE CONTINUUM. He wrote and directed the World Premiere of INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, the piece received the Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Play and was subsequently published by both Theater Communications Group and an Acting Edition by Dramatist Play Service. He has directed around the Country, his plays have been produced around the World and he has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, TCG Extended Collaboration Grant, NEA/TCG Fellowship, a Van Lier Fellow at New Dramatists, recipient of the First Mark Taper Forum's Sherwood Award, and the TANNE Award for Exceptional Body of Work. He has been an Artist in Residence at the American Conservatory Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, and Theater/Emory as well as a Visiting Professor at DePaul University School of the Arts. The Mark Taper Forum, the National Endowment of the Arts, The McCarter Theater, THEATRES DE NIMES, LE THEATRE L'ODEON, Theaterworks/USA and Theater/Emory, has commissioned him. He has written for Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Avnet/Kerner, HBO, ABC, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, New Line/Fine Line Cinema and Artisan Entertainment. His new play ANTEBELLUM was workshopped at the 2005 O'NEILL FESTIVAL. He is currently Directing the World Tour of the Off Broadway Hit play, IN THE CONTINUUM. He recently completed work on the THE WIZ directed by Des McAnuff. www.robertaohara.com