Sarah Schulman was born in New York City in 1958.

She is the author of nine novels: The Mere Future (Spring, 2009), The Child (Carroll & Graff, 2007—hard cover, Arsenal Pulp, 2008—paperback), Shimmer (Avon, 1998), Rat Bohemia (Dutton, 1995—reissue 2008 with a new introduction by the author and new cover by Nan Goldin), Empathy (Dutton, 1992—reissued in a 15th anniversary critical edition with essays by Kevin Killian and John Weir, 2007), People in Trouble (Dutton, 1990), After Delores (Dutton, 1988), Girls, Visions, and Everything (Seal, 1986), The Sophie Horowitz Story (Naiad, 1984).

They have been translated into French (L'Incertain, 10/18, H&O), Spanish (Alfaguara, Huega y Fierro), Japanese (Magazine House), British (Sheba, Cassell, Penguin), German (Argument Verlag), Dutch (An Dekkar), Greek (Aquarius), Swedish (Anima Vorlag), Portugese (Distribuidora Record-Brazil).

Her two nonfiction books are: My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years (Routledge, 1994) and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (Duke, 1998).

Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Arts and Leisures, The Village Voice, The Nation, New York Newsday, Mother Jones, INTERVIEW, The Guardian of London, The Advocate, CINEASTE, JUMP-CUT, OUT, Frieze, Harvard Lesbian and Gay Review, The Progressive, DIVA (UK), LGNY, New York Press, Journal for Physicians in AIDS Care, The Boston Phoenix, Nerve, POZ, American Theater Magazine, Girlfriends and more.

From 1979-1994 Sarah created, collaborated on, and participated in a wide range of interdisciplinary theater as part of the Downtown Arts Movement, working in such emblematic venues as The Pyramid, 8BC, Club Chandelier, The King Tut Wah-Wah Hut, University of the Streets, Theater for a New City, La Mama, The Performing Garage, PS 122, and HERE.

Since 2002, Sarah has been presenting her plays in mainstream theaters in New York and regionally. Her most recent productions were Carson McCullers (Playwrights Horizons/Women's Project) directed by Marion McClinton with Jenny Bacon, The Burning Deck at The La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Kirsten Brandt, starring Diane Venora, Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons) directed by Trip Cullman, starring Deirdre O'Connell and Enemies, A Love Story (adapted from the novel by IB Singer) (Wilma Theater, Philadelphia) directed by Jiri Ziska.

Next Production: Enemies, A Love Story at The Roundbout Theater, New York City.

Next Reading: The Burning Deck at Primary Stages, Fall 2008.

Currently in Development: Shimmer (a musical adaptation of her novel) with composer Anthony Davis and lyricist Michael Korie, Choice (a play about the lawyer and plaintiff in the Roe V Wade case) and other plays.

Citizenship includes three years in CARASA (Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse), seven years in ACT UP, five years given to the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, co-founder of the Lesbian Avengers, co-founder,with Jim Hubbard, of the Mix: Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival in 1986.

Awards include: Fullbright in Judaic Studies, Revson Fellowship for the Future of New York City at Columbia University, Stonewall Award for Contributions Improving the Lives of Lesbians and Gays in the United States, three NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (Fiction and Playwrighting), finalist for the Prix de Rome in Fiction, Berilla Kerr Prize in Playwrighting, two American Library Association Book Awards (Fiction and Non-fiction), Ferro-Grumley Award in Lesbian Fiction, and a Guggenheim in Playwrighting.

I am a Full Professor of English at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island, and a Fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.

Always looking for time off to write.

Jim Hubbard has been making films since 1974. Among his 19 films are Elegy in the Streets (1989), Two Marches (1991), The Dance (1992) and Memento Mori (1995). His films have been shown at the Berlin Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Torino and many other Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals. His film Memento Mori won the Ursula for Best Short Film at the Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1995. He co-founded and is president of MIX - the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival. Under the auspices of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, he created the Royal S. Marks AIDS Activist Video Collection at the New York Public Library. He curated the series Fever in the Archive: AIDS Activist Videotapes from the Royal S. Marks Collection for the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He lives with Nelson Gonzalez, his lover of 21 years, in New York.

FILMOGRAPHY

The ACT UP Oral History Project (in progress)
Don't Do It! (1999), Super 8, color, sound, 3 min.
Shoot Art! (The 1997 MIX NYC Trailer), 16mm, handpainted color on b&w, sound, 1 min.
Memento Mori (1995), 16mm cinemascope, color, sound, 17 min.
The Dance (1992), 16mm, color, sound, 8 min.
Two Marches (1991), 16mm, color, sound, 8 min.
A Valentine For Nelson (1990), 16mm, color, sound, 5 min.
Speak for Yourself (1990), video, 30 min.
Elegy in the Streets (1989), 16mm, color, silent, 30 min.
My Father's Hotel (1988), 16mm, color, silent, 5 min.
Home (1987), 16mm, color, silent, 11 min.
Winter Heat (1986) (16mm Film/Performance piece with Lenora Champagne)
Homosexual Desire in Minnesota (1981-85), Super-8, color, sound, 69 min.
El BotĚn (1984), Super-8, color, silent, 3 min.
Blues (1983), Super-8, b&w, silent, 8 min.
June 12, 1982 (1982), Super-8, b&w, silent, 7 min.
March On! (1981), Super-8, color, silent, 50 min.
Stop the Movie (Cruising) (1980), Super-8, color, silent, 14 min.
May 21-22, 1979 (1980), Super-8, b&w, silent, 6 min.
Breaking Out (1978), 16mm, b&w, silent, 15 min.
At a Station of the SP (1975), 16mm, sound, b&w, 2 min.

MIX: New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival
Co-Founder, Co-Director (1987-1992), President (1992 - present)

Curator
Fever in the Archive: AIDS Activist Video from the Royal S. Marks Collection,
Guggenheim Museum, New York, December 1 - 9, 2000

Awards
Ford Foundation Grant for an Oral History of ACT UP, 2002
NYFA Fellowship, 1988
NYSCA Individual Film Production Grant, 1992
Ursula Award (Best Short Film), Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Short Film Jury, 1995 (Memento Mori)

Anthology Film Archives
Oct. 1991 - Feb. 1996
Acting Archivist
Exhibitions Director