JAMES P. MIRRIONE has written for Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, as well as regional theatre. His commissioned plays include: The Ghost Café for Carnegie Hall (1992), The Last Stop, Will and Testament of St. Jack Kerouac for New York University (1995) and Cheap Sunglasses for the McCarter Theatre (2000). He is the 1995 winner of the Spokane playwrights Festival for his play Area code 212.  In 1996, he received a commission from the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), which resulted in The Last Enemy, a play written for the first Middle East theatre company composed of Palestinians, Jordanians and Israelis, created under his direction. The play premiered at the United Nations in October 1998 prior to its first tour in Amman, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Jaffa and HaifaFrom 1978 to 1998, James Mirrione was the playwright-in-residence for the Creative Arts Team (CAT), the resident educational theatre company at New York University where, as the author of 19 plays for the company, he established himself as one of the leading writers of Theatre-in-Education (TIE) plays for American audiences. Presently, he is the head of the Theatre Department at United Arab Emirates University in the UAE. He holds a MA and Ph.D. from New York University.