Kari Bentley-Quinn’s plays have been presented at or developed with Lesser America, Lark Play Development Center, Halcyon Theatre, Artemisia Theater, Animus Theatre Company and more.She has been a finalist for many awards and conferences including the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and the Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. Her plays include Paper Cranes (Backstage Critic’s Pick), The Ocean Thought Nothing (O’Neill NPC Finalist), Prepared (Kilroys List Honorable Mention), The Worst Mother in the World (Halcyon Theater), Wendy and the Neckbeards (The Relentless Award Honorable Mention) and Hyannis (Ashland New Plays Festival Award Winner). Kari has an MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College, where she won the Rita and Burton Goldberg Award.