Daniel Stroeh is an award-winning author, educator, and storyteller. His plays include it is no desert (which won the 2001 Kennedy Center National Student Playwriting Award), 10 a.m. Signing (which was commissioned by Boston’s Alarm Clock Theatre Company), and The Chess Club (which was commissioned by The Kennedy Center’s Education Department). He has been a visiting artist at the Sundance Theatre Lab, the John F. Kennedy Center, and the Mark Taper Forum. He was Alarm Clock Theatre Company’s resident playwright and was a founding member of New York City’s Threshold Theatre Project. Daniel has been a contributor to Monologues for Men by Men, Volume 2 (Heinemann Press), the Audition Arsenal series (Smith & Kraus), and The Kennedy Center Presents (Back Stage Books). An acting edition of it is no desert is available from Samuel French, Inc. He’s taught workshops and master classes at numerous high schools and universities and has also spoken at many spiritual conferences for youth and young adults. Most recently, he served as a judge for the Kennedy Center’s David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award and mentored young writer-performers for the Kennedy Center’s VSA Program. In December 2009 Daniel became the first-ever recipient of the Carpe Diem Award presented by the Boomerang Fund for Artists. He’s married to actress Anne Bowles and is currently working on his first book.