Chip Bolcik has written 108 plays to date.  His favorites include the play you are seeing tonight.  Chip’s play, The Field Trip,premiered at The Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC, where it was chosen as best play in the 2017 Downtown Urban Arts Festival.  Ferry Limbo, premiered last year at HERE in NYC to standing room only audiences.   The Blizzard won best play at the Strawberry One-Act Festival.  In The Third Person and Suit Yourself each won Manhattan Rep's One-Act competition.  The Writerwon The Seven Festival in Albuquerque, NM, and A Rocky Relationship won the Midtown International Theatre Festival.   Expecting Hamilton closed this year’s Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, AK, and has played all over the U.S.  Chip’s new play, Art Strike premiered at this year’s Artist Exchange One-Act Festival in Cranston, RI.  The Sundog Theatre in Staten Island has mounted three of Chip’s plays, including Staten Island Fairy Tale, Lovin’ The Boat and this year’s Poof!.   The Caleb Reece festival of New Plays in Phoenix premiered Jungle Dining and featured Expecting Hamilton in their recent festival.   The Knee To My Heart had its world premiere at the Montgomery Playhouse in Chip’s home town of Gaithersburg, MD.  Breaking Out Is Hard To Do premiered at the Hudson Guild Theatre in NYC.  The World’s Worst Puppeteers had its first public showing at the Last Frontier Theater Conference.  Chip has studied playwriting with Emily Mann and Lucas Hnath, and thanks his home theater, The Ruskin Group Theatre, in Santa Monica, CA for premiering so many of his plays.