Playwright: Rajiv Joseph
RAJIV JOSEPH's play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a 2010 finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize, played on Broadway last year, starring Robin Williams.
His other plays include Gruesome Playground Injuries, Animals Out of
Paper, The Monster at the Door, The North Pool, The Leopard and the
Fox (adaptation), All This Intimacy and Huck & Holden. Rajiv has been
awarded a United States Artists Grant and the Whiting Award. He has
written for the Showtime award-winning series, Nurse Jackie. He received
his B.A. in Creative Writing from Miami University and his M.F.A. in
Playwriting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He served for three years
in the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa.