Biographies of the Authors  

Russel Stich has been involved with the Cleveland theatrical community for over twenty five years.  He began as a stand-up comedian and is a founding member of Something Dada Improvisational Comedy Co., with whom he has been performing since their foundation in 1994 and for which he currently serves as Artistic Director.  In addition to being an original cast member in “Tony & Tina’s Wedding,” during it’s record setting run at Playhouse Square, Stich has performed in numerous other productions.  He has directed well over seventy five productions – a majority of them for youth theaters. His writing experience includes stand-up, children’s theater, murder mysteries, video and live script content for local businesses and organizations.  

Nancy Nixon is a poet and playwright.  She was born in Cleveland and heard the words that echoed through the steel bars of that city. Eventually she wandered away and now splits her time between a hill next to a river in rural Holmes County and the metropolis of Columbus.  Nixon was a member of the Pudding House Salon in Cleveland, the Ohio Poetry Association and performs her work at venues all over Ohio. Her work has appeared myriad places - print and online journals, the odd anthology, an art gallery, scratched in sand and tied to balloons. Nixon placed in both the 2012 Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contest and the 2013 William Redding Memorial Competition. Her first chapbook, Wary Of How the Cow Has Evolved, was published by Kattywompus Press in August 2013.    

Nixon and Stich are life-long friends who have enjoyed riffing on various topics and creating new universes with their interactions.  They finally decided to commit some of their notions to the page and originally conceived of an epistolary work which eventually evolved into the full length play The Bigfoot Letters.  They have also written the deliciously dark Ten-Minute play Minimum Rage, which was also produced in 2016.