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Mychele is a native of Phoenix, Arizona. She attended Corona del Sol High School, and received her BA in Theatre from Arizona State University. She worked at the Herberger Theatre Center in the technical department from 1991-1994 before jumping ship to begin writing full time.
Mychele, is a poet, playwright, theatre reviewer, and Web designer. Mychele was the Theatre and Dance editor for The Ashes Arts Review Magazine, and also had a monthly Internet column, "Bytes," that ran in Java Monthly. She is the creator and editor of Arizona Arts Reviews Online (AARO), as well as the Phoenix Mercury Fan Page.
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Mark received his B.A.'s in Dramatic Arts and English from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing with an emphasis in Playwriting from Emerson College in Boston. From 1988 to 1989, he was a theatre critic for the "Boston Phoenix," and is now donating his time as a theatre critic for the "Grapevine Newspapers." He won playwriting awards from the Arizona State Commission on the Arts in '91 and '92. He was Playwright-, Director-, and Dramaturg-in-Residence at Playwright's Workshop Theatre in Phoenix from '92 to '94. He is currently the Artistic Director at Murder Ink Productions of Phoenix, and has written two of their current productions. One, "The Big Kill," has been running continuously since December of 1991. His full-length plays, one-act plays and murder mystery dinner theatre productions have been widely produced, both nationally and internationally, including recent productions in Mexico, Great Britian and Thailand. One of his one-acts, "Selective Memory," was published this past fall in the Alabama Literary Review. Click here for Mark's web page
His one regret in life is that he is not Woody Allen.
Regina has a real job but is actually a poet and has been an actor for local Shakespearean companies. She has won her share of Poetry Slams and is a member of the 1996 Mesa Poetry Slam Team that ventured off to the National Slam in Portland, Oregon.
John D. Banks is a writer and editor living in Tucson. He is a native of South Carolina, a preacher's kid and army brat, a University of Arizona graduate, a speaker of Russian, a lover of music and theatre, a net junkie, a husband, and a slave to four cats.
"I am a techie programmer working with the State. Originally a NYC urchin, I emigrated to the Copper State a quarter of a century ago. But while in the big Apple, I did manage to participate in high school and community theaters. My college drama course required two reviews a week. That translates into Sunday and Wednesday Broadway matinees. When my eldest went high school here in the valley, I became the typical stage mother. Now I just select a play a month, attend the weekly ASUwest Film Society presentations, and Phoenix Art Museum lectures."
Paul works at Arizona State University in the muscial theatre department. His review of Reality Wars is his first stab at theatre reviewing and he hopes to contribute many more reviews.
Tony Padegimas is a free-lance writer and stagehand based in Phoenix, where he spends a great deal of time doing nothing in particular. He and his wife Penny are owned by several cats.
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