Rajiv Joseph was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his Broadway play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which also won the National Endowment for the Arts’ grant for Outstanding New American Play. Mr. Joseph’s New York productions include Guards at the Taj (Atlantic Theater Company, 2015), The North Pool (Vineyard Theater, 2013), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Second Stage Theatre, 2011), Animals Out of Paper (Second Stage Theatre, 2008), The Leopard and the Fox (Alter Ego, 2007), Huck & Holden (Cherry Lane Theatre, 2006), and All This Intimacy (Second Stage Theatre, 2006). Other recent productions include Mr. Wolf (South Coast Repertory, 2015), The Lake Effect (Crossroads Theatre, New Jersey, 2013) and Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre, Houston, 2011). Mr. Joseph wrote for the Showtime series Nurse Jackie for seasons 3 and 4 and was the co-screenwriter of the film Draft Day, starring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner. He is the book-writer and co-lyricist for the musical, Fly, which premiered at the Dallas Theater Center in 2013. Finally, Mr. Joseph and Jack Perla’s opera, Shalimar the Clown, adapted from the novel by Salman Rushdie, premiered at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis during the summer of 2016. Mr. Joseph received his B.A. in Creative Writing from Miami University and his M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal and now lives in Brooklyn.