John Olive was born in 1949 and received his B.A. and M.A. in Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota. A widely produced and award-winning playwright, he is the author of Minnesota Moon, Standing on My Knees, The Voice of the Prairie, Careless Love, Killers, The Summer Moon, Evelyn and the Polka King, God Fire, Into the Moonlight Valley, and many others. Producing theaters include: the Guthrie Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Rep, the Old Globe, ACT/Seattle, and the Royal Theatre Copenhagen. Mr. Olive is a resident playwright with Seattle Children's Theatre, for whom he has done six mainstage adaptations. He is also a screenwriter, a novelist, and a popular teacher of creative writing, and was recently appointed Playwright-in-Residence at the Actors Theatre of St. Paul. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Mary, and their son, Michael.

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