Marcy Arlin

Marcy Arlin has been reading spec fiction since elementary school (Half-Magic, The Mushroom Planet, Bradbury), and seriously writing for five years. She studied with Chris McKitterick, Andy Duncan, Kij Johnson, Betsy James, Jill Dearman. Member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, Broad Universe, Theatre Without Borders, No Passport, League of Professional Theatre Women, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. SF publications include PerihelionSF.com, Abandoned Towers, and Man.In.Fest/Romania (her SF play). She loves LeGuin, Gaiman, Pynchon, Chiang, F. Brown, Ellison, Butler, Pratchett, et al. She is Artistic Director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants' Theatre Project, directing over 200 plays in the U.S./Europe. Marcy taught theatre at Yale, Brown, CUNY, U. of Chicago, and teaches Theatre for Social Change at Pace University. She is a Fulbright scholar to Romania and the Czech Republic. Lives in Brooklyn with her husband, cats, and folks from many nations and ethnicities who inspire her and have great take-out menus.