Corey Fischer is an actor, writer and director who has been creating and performing theatre for several decades. In 1978, with Albert Greenberg and Naomi Newman, he co-founded  the award-winning Traveling Jewish Theatre and served the company as writer, actor and director for its 34 years of existence. Robert Hurwitt, drama critic emeritus for the Chronicle, once wrote that Fischer is “one of the Bay Area’s acting treasures.” In 2000, he adapted renowned Israeli author David Grossman’s novel “See Under: Love” which won a Kennedy Center New American Plays award. Before the founding of TJT, Fischer worked with several visionary directors and companies including The ProVisional Theater, Robert Altman and Joseph Chaikin. He is also a published writer of fiction and non-fiction, and works as a developmental editor/dramaturg with playwrights. He is married to writer China Galland, has three adult step-children and six grandchildren. www.coreyfischer.com.