Paul Zimet: Artistic Director, Talking Band. Plays:Marcellus Shale, New Islands Archipelago, Radnevsky’s Real Magic, Imminence, Belize, The Parrot, Star Messengers, Bitterroot, Party Time, Black Milk Quartetand New Cities. Directed thirty-five new works for Talking Band including The Walk Across America for Mother Earth by Taylor Mac, which was developed, in part, at the Playwrights' Center. OBIE award for direction, and three OBIE awards for work with the Open Theater and Winter Project directed by Joseph Chaikin; a 2008 NewYorkTheatre.Com People of the Year award; The Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater; and a Playwrights’ Center National McKnight Fellowship; alumnus of New Dramatists.