Jim Knable's play SPAIN was professionally produced at MCC Theatre (dir. Jeremy Dobrish 2007), Summer Play Festival (2006), Woolly Mammoth Theatre (2001), Actor's Express in Atlanta, New Jersey Rep, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis, and various other regional and university theatres. TRUE AND SOLID GROUND was produced at Soho Rep (SummerCamp 2001). EMERSON HIGH was workshopped at NYU with Eduardo Machado (dramaturg) and produced at Half Moon Theatre 2009. GREEN MAN was selected for National New Play Network showcase 2006; workshopped at Ars Nova, Premiere Stages and The River Stage; produced at STAGEStheatre, Los Angeles, 2015. Knable was commissioned by Firefly: Theater and Film to write the Houdini-related plays PRINCE OF AIR and THE GREAT BEYOND, which have been workshopped at Geva Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre and Open Fist Theatre; PRINCE OF AIR was one of three finalists for the Terrence McNally New Play Award in 2013. He was commissioned to write four plays for young audiences by The Playwrights Project and The Hangar Theatre; commissioned to write the children’s opera THE MAGIC FISH with composer brother Sunny Knable in 2012 by Half-Moon Theatre — performances 2012-2015 there and other venues in New York and the Mondavi Center at UC Davis. Young audience play HYPER-FOCUS is published by Samuel French; THE BEST MISTAKE published by Dramatic Publishing; THE TRUTH ABOUT DINOSAURS and LOST IN WORDS published by Playscripts, Inc. SPAIN, GREEN MAN, and SALTIMBANQUES are published in an acting edition collection by Samuel French as “The Imaginary Plays by Jim Knable.” SPAIN was included in Smith and Kraus' Best New Plays 2008 Anthology. As a songwriter, Jim Knable has independently produced and released one solo album (Miles) and two albums (Golden Arrow and Redbeard) with his band The Randy Bandits (www.randybandits.com). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and sons.