Karen Smith Vastola’s new play Big Girls, Little Girls was read this year at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York and The Appointment was part of Rattlestick’s 2004’s EXPOSURE Festival. Her play Eggs & Apples was recipient of a 2004 John Golden Playwrighting Award and read at DR2 Theater, New York. Her one-act play Under the Bed was a finalist in the Drury University One-Act Play Competition 2004. Other work has been produced at Columbia University and read at MCC and The Actors Studio. Regionally her plays have been produced at the Herbert Mark Newman Theater and Schoolhouse Theater in Westchester, New York. Monologues and scenes from her plays Dog Eat Dog, The Family Tree and Dead or Alive have been published in the Best Women’s and Men’s Anthologies by Smith & Krauss, Dramatic Publishing, as well as Best Stage Monologues and Scenes from the 90’s, Meriwether Publishing. She has been a Yaddo fellow. Karen Smith Vastola graduated from Columbia University’s MFA Playwriting program where she received Columbia’s Theater Playwriting Fellowship and Miller Scholarship. Karen is a member of the Playwright/Directors Group at the Actors Studio. Ms. Vastola has taught playwriting at Western Connecticut State University, Columbia University and Andy’s Summer Playhouse, NH. She is delighted to be asked to write an original play for this year at Andy’s Summer Playhouse.