Sue Mach has an MA in Playwriting from Boston University and writes plays that explore American history, democracy, and women’s untold stories. Her first play, Monograms, was produced at Theatre for the New City in Manhattan, the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble in Bloomsburg, PA, Portland Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR, and the Icarus Theatre Ensemble in Ithaca, NY. The script, published by Rain City Press in Seattle, also received a Portland Drama Critics Circle Award. Her second play, Angle of View, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and received readings at Portland Repertory Theatre and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. For her third play, The Shadow Testament, she received a Woman Writers Fellowship from Literary Arts. This piece has been workshopped by Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and JAW/West at Portland Center Stage. It was produced by Portland World Theatre as part of The Fertile Ground Festival, and most recently at Clackamas Community College. Her play The Difficult Season, a collaboration with renowned jazz pianist and songwriter Dave Frishberg, was workshopped at Artists Repertory Theatre. She was awarded a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, as well as the Oregon Book Award for her play The Lost Boy, which was also part of Portland Center Stage’s JAW/West development series and received its world premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre. Her play A Noble Failure premiered at Third Rail Repertory Theatre in Portland. Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York also produced a staged reading. Sue’s adaptation of the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story The Yellow Wallpaper was produced at CoHo Productions in Portland and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Plays in progress include Vortex I, a musical collaboration with Bill Wadhams, the frontman for the eighties pop group Animotion, and Madonna of the Cat. Both works received developmental readings at The Fertile Ground Festival. Additionally, Sue has received grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Commission, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Oregon Council for the Humanities. She has been teaching literature, composition, and creative writing classes at Clackamas Community College for the past twenty-five years.