JON KERN – Plays include Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them (Second Stage Theatre; CATF),We in Silence Hear a Whisper (Red Fern Theatre Co.), and Hate the Loser Inside (2013 Marathon at Ensemble Studio Theatre). Alumnus: Ars Nova Play Group, Civilians R&D Group, EST/Youngblood, Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Playwrights Union. Awards: 2010-2011 Van Lier Fellowship from New Dramatists, 2012 Laurents/Hatcher Prize, EST/Sloan Grant. University of Chicago (BA), Columbia University (MFA). TV: “The Simpsons,” “Son of Zorn” Teaching: New School, NYU