Obie award–winning director, writer, and dramaturge Annie Dorsen, is the co-creator of the 2008 Broadway musical Passing Strange, which she also directed. Spike Lee has since made a film of her production of the piece, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, and was released theatri- cally by IFC. Most recently, she directed Ask Your Mama, a setting of Langston Hughes’ 1962 poem, com- posed by Laura Karpman and sung by Jessye Norman and The Roots (Carnegie Hall). She collaborated with the string quartet ETHEL on Truckstop, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival last fall, and her pop-political performance project Democracy in America was presented at Performance Space 122 (PS 122) in spring 2008. Her short film I Miss, originally the centerpiece of the De- mocracy project, screened at the New York Film Festival’s “Views from the Avant-Garde” series, and at the Nantucket Film Festival. Upcoming, Piece Sans Paroles, with DD Dorvillier and Anne Juren, at Brut (Vienna) and Rencontres Choreographiques (Paris), and Hello Hi There, which premieres at the Steirischer Herbst Festival in 2010, before performing at HAU (Berlin), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen) and PS122 (New York.) In addition to numerous awards for Passing Strange, Ms. Dorsen has received several fellowships, notably the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship from the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and both the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller fellowships from the Williamstown Theater Festival. She has taught at New York University, Fordham University, and Playwright’s Horizons, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.