Kathleen Akerley is a playwright, director, actor and teacher whose Theories of the Sun had its Midwest premiere with Sideshow. Other produced work as a playwright includes Something Past in Front of the Light (considered for the Steinberg ATCA Award), The Oogatz Man, 1,952 Miles, Feet, Out of Line, Maintenance is Death and Banquo’s Dead, Jim. Kathleen also adapted Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle for Longacre Lea in Washington, DC, where she is the Artistic Director. Kathleen has acted and/or directed with Studio Theatre, WSC Avant Bard (formerly known as Washington Shakespeare Company), Catalyst Theatre, Theater Alliance, Rorschach Theatre, Scena Theatre, Forum Theatre, Washington Stage Guild and the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, and has taught acting and directing at The Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Catholic University of America, Round House Theatre and Educational Theatre Company. Kathleen is on the Advisory Board of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, and a 2006 recipient of the Theater Lobby Mary Goldwater Award for acting and directing.