Jon Robin Baitz’s plays include The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, The End of the Day, Three Hotels, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Ten Unknowns, The Paris Letter, Vicuña, and an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler that appeared on Broadway in 2001. His plays Other Desert Cities and A Fair Country were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Baitz is a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award winner, and a founding member of the Naked Angels theater company. He also wrote the screenplays for The Substance of Fire, People I Know, and Stonewall. He created ABC’s Brothers & Sisters and NBC’s miniseries The Slap. He received a Humanitas Prize for the PBS version of Three Hotels. His plays have been extensively produced worldwide. He lives in California.