The Editors

GEORGE BIRIMISA (on the right in the photo below) was the first openly gay playwright to receive a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, for the 1969 London production of Mr. Jello at the International Theatre Club. He later won the Drama-Logue Award for his 1978 play Rainbow in the Night. Daddy Violet, the 1967 play included in this collection, premièred at the Caffe Cino and went on to tour college campuses in the U.S. and Canada. The historian Ross Wetzsteon wrote of the 1968 play Georgie Porgie, “Birimisa’s considerable talent [is] as fluid as it is raw, as passionate as it is brutal.” The founder and director of Intergeneration Writing Workshops in San Francisco, George won the Harry Hay award in 2005 as “. . . noted playwright, teacher and cherished inspiration across the generations of the LGBT community.” He lives with his pussycat Sweetheart, and as we go to press is doing final revisions to his twenty-fifth play, Hackberry Tree, a Memoir.

 

STEVE SUSOYEV (on the left) is the founder and editor-in-chief of Moving Finger Press. He has written extensively for the legal community on the child-custody rights of gay and lesbian parents and other human rights issues. His bestselling memoir People Farm won a Writer’s Digest Culture Award in 2004. The White Crane Journal has called him “An example of the gay man as seeker, as victim, and as redeemed and redeemer.” He spends part of every summer with the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Steve practices law in San Francisco, specializing in the needs of people with life-threatening conditions.

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