Kevin R. Free is a writer/performer whose work has been showcased on NPR and in theatres across the United States. His most recent work is the web series Gemma & The Bear! (www.GemmaAndTheBear.com) received an Award of Excellence from the Best Shorts Competition (and was the only online content to receive such recognition). His full-length plays include A Raisin in the Salad: Black Plays for White People (SemiFinalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2013); The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, or TRIPLE CONSCIOUSNESS;  Night of the Living N-Word and AM I DEAD? The Untrue Narrative of Anatomical Lewis, The Slave (Commissioned by Flux Theatre Ensemble through the FluxForward program, 2015). He is an alumnus of the New York Neo-Futurists, with whom he wrote and performed regularly in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) between 2007 and 2011. His work has been published by Commonplace Books (“What it Means To Be A Grown Up: The Complete and Definitive Answer”) and at www.indietheaternow.com. In 2010, He was named one of NYTheatre.com’s 15 people of the year, because of his “outstanding, noteworthy contributions to the New York theatre scene,” and he now serves as Producing Artistic Director of The Fire This Time Festival, a festival for emerging playwrights of the African Diaspora. www.kevinrfree.com, Twitter: @kevinrfree