David Carl and Amy Windle in Week
37 of "365 Days/365 Plays" by
Suzan-Lori Parks.

ABOUT SLANT'S FOUNDERS

SLANT's founding members are Wes Grantom, Adam
Knight
, and Mat Smart.  Gretchen Neidert was also
instrumental to our founding.

Wes Grantom - New York: Gamers (FringeNYC/Slant); 365 Days/365
Plays
(Public Theater/Slant); Glengarry Glen Ross (Stella Adler
Conservatory);
The Horton Foote Project (Slant/NYU); Golden Boy
(Stella Adler Conservatory); Hip-Hop Hamlet Project (New
Dramatists/Slant);
In the Shelter of the Fold (Cherry Lane Theatre);
Moonchildren (The Engine); The Obstruction Plays, CouchWorks, The
Debate Over Courtney O'Connell of Columbus, Nebraska
and Pericles
(Slant). Wes has also worked with the Alley Theatre, Shakespeare
Santa Cruz, the New Harmony Project and assisted Rufus Norris on the
Broadway revival of
Les Liaisons Dangereuses for Roundabout Theatre
Company. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

Adam Knight recently directed the premieres of Leviticus by Bekah
Brunstetter (Slant),
Stupid F***ing Bitch by Lucy Alibar (Ensemble
Studio Theatre/St. Mark's Church),
Keeping Watch by Thomas Ward
(Piccolo Spoleto),
Old Kid Cod by Lawrence Dial (Peter Kay), and
Gluttony by Jennie Berman Eng.  For Slant Theatre Project:  Beef by
Lawrence Dial,
Priest in a Pool by Michele Lowe, 365 Days/365 Plays by
Suzan-Lori Parks,
The Debate Plays, Shoes, and Chopin's Preludes by
Mat Smart, and
Exposium (which he also wrote).

Mat Smart is the author of nine full-length plays.  In 2005, the world
premiere of his play
The Hopper Collection was produced by the Magic
Theatre in San Francisco. In 2006 it ran at Huntington Theatre in
Boston. At 26, he became the youngest playwright ever produced on
Huntington’s mainstage. A graduate of the University of Evansville in
Evansville, Indiana, he holds an MFA in Playwriting from the University
of California-San Diego and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.  In 2008
City Theatre in Pittsburgh produced the world premiere of his play
The
13th of Paris
.