Erin Cressida Wilson is an internationally produced and award-winning playwright and screenwriter. She has written over fifteen plays produced regionally, in New York City, and abroad - at such stages as The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. In 2003, she won the Independent Spirit Award for her screenplay, Secretary. Her musical, Wilder - co-written with Red Clay Rambler composers Jack Herrick and Mike Craver - opened at Playwrights Horizons in October of 2003. Her first novel will be published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster. Formerly an associate professor at Duke University, Wilson is now on the English Department faculty at Brown University.