RUTH MCKEE

RUTH MCKEE's The Nightshade Family was produced in the 2007 SPF Play Festival. It was a runner-up in the 2006 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Contest and received readings at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, and Playwrights Horizons. It was a finalist for the 2007 Stanley Drama Award, and originally produced in the 2006 Baldwin New Play Festival at the University of California, San Diego. Other plays have been presented in New York by Six Figures Theatre Company, HB Playwrights Foundation, and Access Theatre. Originally from Canada, by way of Bangladesh and Kenya, Ruth has a BFA from NYU, an MFA from UCSD, and currently lives in Los Angeles.