Lawrence Goodman’s plays include Rain Later, An Evening of Highly Self-Indulgent Semi-Autobiographical Comedy, Keep Your Distance, and The Disappearance of the Jews. His work has been performed at The Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia, the HERE Arts Center in New York, and the New York International Fringe Festival. He is the recipient of the 2002 Albert Benzwie Playwriting Award and was named a finalist in the 2008 National New Play Network’s Timothy Smith Prize and the 2007 Maieutic Theatre Reading Series in New York. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont and a B.A. in English from Harvard College.