José Cruz González's recent plays include The Magic Kite, Curious, The Astronaut Farmworker, The Long Road Today, The San Patricios, No Sermons In Stones, Los Valientes, The Sun Serpent, Super Cow Girl and Mighty Miracle.

His plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing, University of Texas Press, Smith and Kraus, Inc., Anchorage Press Plays, Inc., Playscripts, Inc., Lion and Seagoat Press, and Dutton Children’s Books. A collection of his plays, Nine Plays by José Cruz González Magical Realism & Mature Themes in Theatre for Young Audiences was published by the University of Texas Press in 2009.

Mr. González has written for PAZ, the Emmy Award nominated television series produced by Discovery Kids for The Learning Channel. Mr. González was a recipient of a 2004 TCG/Pew National Theatre Residency grant. In 1997 he was awarded a NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, and in 1985 received an NEA Directing Fellowship.

Mr. González was awarded the 2015 Orlin Corey Medallion by the Children’s Theatre Foundation, 2012 Ann Shaw Fellowship by Theatre for Young Audiences/USA, 2010 Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist Grant, 2009 American Alliance for Theatre & Education Distinguished Book Award, and is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and TYA/USA. He is a Playwright in Residence with Childsplay (AZ).

Suzan Zeder is one of the nation's leading playwrights of plays for young and family audiences. Her work has been seen in all fifty states and has been produced and published in Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan. Israel, and Switzerland. She is the six time winner of the Distinguished Play award from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education, most recently in 2015 for Wiley and The Hairy Man (The Musical) and The Edge of Peace, the third and final play in The Ware Trilogy. In September 2015, Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD will premiere her latest play, When She Had Wings.

Zeder has chaired the Playwright's Fellowship panel for the National Endowment for the Arts and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Children;s Theatre Foundation of America. In 1997 she was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and in 2014 she received AATE’s Campton Bell Lifetime Achievement Award. She has recently retired from The University of Texas at Austin, where she was Head of Playwriting for 23 years. She is currently working on a bunch of new/old plays and living the good life in Santa Fe, New Mexico.