Kenneth Bernard is a playwright and the author of two previous works of fiction, The Maldive Chronicles and Two Stories. His fiction has appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, and he has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for fiction, among other awards. For fifteen years he was a principal playwright in John Vaccaro's Play-House of the Ridiculous, and his work was performed at La mama ETC and Theater for the New City, as well as in Europe, Canada, and Australia. At present he teaches at the Brooklyn Center of Long Island University. Judith Malina's Living Theater will stage his new play in 1992, and a third volume of his plays will also be published this year.