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Jose’ Casas is a playwright and current Literary Manager of CASA0101 in Los Angeles. His plays have been produced across the country. Works written include mindprobe/freddie’s dead, the vine, la rosa still grows beyond the wall, 14, somebody’s children and la ofrenda. His play, mindprobe/freddie’s dead, won the Sherrill C. Corwin/Metropolitan Theatre award for Best One-Act plays. His play, la ofrenda, has won the2005 Bonderman National Playwriting for Youth Award and the 2007 American Alliance Theatre and Education’s Distinguished Play award. His play, somebody’s children was the winner of the 2009 Bonderman National Playwriting Award and the 2010 American Alliance of Theatre and Education’s Distinguished Play award. His plays, 14 (2003) la rosa never grows beyond the wall (2005) and have both been awarded the ARIZoni Theatre Award for Excellence for Best Production of An Original Play. He has three published plays: la ofrenda (Dramatic Publishing), 14 (AltaMira Press & Paseos Nuevos) and somebody’s children (Dramatic Publishing). He recently completed a commission for Dramatic Publishing which be included in the anthology, The Bully Plays which was published this summer