Brett Keyser is a writer and performer based in the southwestern Catskills. He is a North American Cultural Laboratory Artist and the Director of Nightjar Apothecary, a scientific-theatrical venture that has to date coughed up six natural wonders, chief among them DARWINII: THE COMEUPPANCE OF MAN. Other works include THE CHRISTMAS LECTURES OF M. NEARANIGHT, TANN, HORNS, AND DEAD DOGS: TALES OF CIVIC EFFLUVIA, and YOU.