Quiz

Was born in Kiev, Ukraine and speaks fluent Russian.

Is a thrice-published playwright: 11 Variations on Friar John's Failure, Courting 101 and Back to Eden. The shows have been performed all over the country, in hundreds of schools and theaters.

Worked at Gizmodo.com.

Is a Russian-Jewish refugee of the USSR, coming to the US when he was five with the rest of his family.

Learned to write plays and film almost solely by reading other writer's work. Namely, Neil Simon, David Ives and Tom Stoppard.