Dwayne Hartford (Adaptor of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane) is the Artistic Director at Childsplay in Tempe, Ariz., where all of his plays for young audiences have premiered.  Eric and Elliot won the 2005 AATE Distinguished Play Award.  The Imaginators was produced and aired on KAET TV, the Phoenix PBS affiliate.  His adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities was part of New York University’s New Plays for Young Audiences Workshop and has been performed at Seattle Children’s Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre, and Wheelock Family Theatre. The Bully Pulpit is included in the anthology The Bully Plays and is being produced in schools and communities around the country.  Dwayne lives in Phoenix and received his B.F.A. degree from the Boston Conservatory.