Carol S. Lashof is a playwright, librettist, and educator. Her work has been broadcast on BET and NPR, and it has been produced by the Magic Theatre of San Francisco, Palo Alto TheatreWorks, Woman’s Will in San Francisco, and Fringe Benefits Theatre Company in Los Angeles, as well as at schools, colleges, and community theatres around the world from Barstow, California to Beijing, China. Publications include Medusa's Tale in Plays in One Act (Ecco Press) and two short plays for elementary school audiences in Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry (Theatre Communications Group). Medusa’s Tale and Persephone Underground have been translated into Chinese and anthologized in the first collection of one-act American plays to be published in China. Two monologues from Gap are included in One on One: The Best Men’s Monologues for the 21st Century (Applause Books). Scenes from Gap and from Persephone Underground appear in DUO! Best Scenes for Two for the 21st century (Applause Books).