Melissa James Gibson’s plays include [sic] (OBIE Award for playwriting, Kesselring Prize, The Best Plays of 2001-02); Suitcase or, those that resemble flies from a distance (NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, Rockefeller Foundation’s Multi-Arts Production Fund); Brooklyn Bridge, with a song by Barbara Brousal (AT&T Onstage award); All is Not (New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Artist Commission); and Current Nobody, a loose adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey (2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist; 2006 Sundance Theatre Lab).  Gibson’s work has been produced at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Soho Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, and The Children’s Theatre Company, as well as many other theaters, regionally and internationally.  Currently, Gibson is working on commissions for Center Theatre Group and the Atlantic Theater Company.   A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Gibson has been a Jerome and MacDowell Colony Fellow, a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse and The Children’s Theatre Company/ New Dramatists Playground program.  [sic] and Suitcase are available through Dramatists Play Service.  The complete text of Brooklyn Bridge appeared in the July/August 2005 issue of American Theatre.  Gibson is a graduate of New Dramatists and the recipient of a 2006 Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights’ Fellowship and a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.  Her play This will premiere at Playwrights Horizons in the fall.