Yehuda Duenyas is a writer, director, performer and founding member of the OBIE award-winning theater collaborative, the National Theater of the United States of America. His work has been premiered in New York City and Europe, and his adaptations for theater and film include works by Samuel Beckett, George Saunders, Malcolm Gladwell and Jonathan Lethem. Duenyas is a MacDowell Fellow and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.