I’d like to thank Chris Coleman, Angus Farquahar, Alexander (“Gus”) Ferguson, Wynn Handman, Jim Nicola, and the entire staff of the New York Theatre Workshop; Edwin Torres, Elizabeth Castegna, Elena Alexander, Rosie Schapp, Keith Roach, and a host of others from the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe; Ed Friedman and others from St. Mark’s Church; the Sundance Theater Program; Paul Kelly, Berniece O’Reagan, Patricia Jacobs, Darius James, Vincent McKenna, Linda Stitt, Doug Hughes, Barbara Bleecker, Margaret Brierly, Anne O’Keefe, Ariella Laskin, Raquel Shapiro, Liam Brady, Maude Campbell, Cassandra Campbell Fernandez, Carol Ruthberg, Jean Carbain, Susan Dumois, Charlie Yoder, Allan Uglow, Anne Schostrum, John Bowman, Mara Isaacs, Emily Mann, and my agents, Judy Boals and Jim Flynn.