Steve Yockey (Playwright) is a roaming company member with Out of Hand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and his plays have been produced around the country and in Asia. His Bay Area theater credits include CARTOON, Sleepy, Large Animal Games and Disassembly at Impact Theatre; Skin at Climate Theater and Encore Theatre Company; and Octopus at Magic Theatre and Encore. This season, afterlife - a ghost story is receiving a National New Play Network (NNPN) rolling world premiere at Southern Rep in New Orleans, New Repertory Theatre in Boston and Edgemar Center for the Arts in Los Angeles. Yockey's published works Octopus, CARTOON, Large Animal Games and Subculture (collected short plays) are available from Samuel French. His other plays include Wonder, Feverish, Heavier Than... and The Thrush & the Woodpecker. Yockey holds a BA from the University of Georgia and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is a recent recipient of a Coca-Cola Artist Residency to teach dramatic structure at Emory University. After completing a yearlong NNPN playwriting residency with Marin Theatre Company, Yockey now lives and works in Los Angeles.