Author: Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was a poet, novelist and critic, and the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry. He was a three-time recipient of the award, honored for All the King’s Men (1947), Promises: Poems 1954-1956 (1958) and Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978 (1979). Warren published 12 volumes of poetry, 10 novels, a volume of short stories, several volumes of literary criticism, social commentaries and texts, and plays. With Cleanth Brooks, he wrote Understanding Poetry (1938), a textbook that widely influenced New Criticism. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1972 until 1988, and was appointed the first U.S. Poet Laureate in 1986. His other honors include the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Adaptor: Adrian Hall adapted All the King’s Men in 1987 for the resident acting company of Rhode Island’s Trinity Repertory Company, where he was the first artistic director, serving from 1964-1989. Under his leadership, Trinity presented more than 35 American and world premieres, most directed and many adapted from fiction by Hall.

Director: Pam MacKinnon is currently represented Off-Broadway by the world premiere of Edward Albee’s Occupant, which will run May 6-June 29 at the Signature Theatre. Earlier this season, she directed Itamar Moses’ The Four of Us (Manhattan Theatre Club), Edward Albee’s Peter and Jerry (Second Stage), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Good Boys and True (Steppenwolf Theatre) and Bruce Norris’ The Unmentionables (Woolly Mammoth). Other recent productions include John Fugelsang’s All the Wrong Reasons (New York Theatre Workshop); two plays by Itamar Moses, Bach at Leipzig (New York Theatre Workshop and Milwaukee Repertory Theater) and The Four of Us (Old Globe); and David Mamet's Romance (Goodman Theatre). A frequent collaborator with Edward Albee, she has directed his The Play About the Baby (Philadelphia Theatre Company and Goodman Theatre), The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Alley Theatre and Vienna’s English Theatre) and the world premiere of Peter and Jerry (Hartford Stage), and she is slated to direct a revival of A Delicate Balance at Arena Stage next season.  Also next season she will direct Jason Grote’s Maria/Stuart for Woolly Mammoth. She is an Affiliated Artist with the New York downtown company Clubbed Thumb.