Stephen Sachs is an award-winning playwright and director and the co-Artistic Director of the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles. He is the author of nineteen produced plays, including Human Interest Story, Arrival & Departure (Best Play, Broadway World Award), Dream Catcher, Citizen: An American Lyric (adaptation, Stage Raw Award), Heart Song, Cyrano (LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Best New Play) and Bakersfield Mist (2012 Elliot Norton Award, Best New Play) which just completed a run on London’s West End starring Kathleen Turner and McDiarmid and is now being translated into other languages and being performed worldwide. His other plays are Miss Julie: Freedom Summer, Gilgamesh, Open Window (Media Access Award), Central Avenue (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist), Sweet Nothing in my Ear (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist, Media Access Award), Mother's Day, The Golden Gate (Best Play Award, Dramalogue), and The Baron in the Trees. He wrote the teleplay for Sweet Nothing in my Ear for Hallmark Hall of Fame which aired on CBS starring Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels. He was recently honored by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Councilman Mitch O'Farrell with a Commendation from the Los Angeles City Council for “his visionary contributions to the cultural life of Los Angeles.”