Trip Venturella is an MFA Playwright at Ohio University. His work include Killer Maples: The Musical!, The Water Baby, and Sibyl. He enjoys writing history plays, and plays that make the audience laugh. For three years, he was the Director of Development for Apollinaire Theater Company in Chelsea, MA, where he was the principle community outreach coordinator for Apollinaire in the Park, a free, outdoor, bilingual summer performance. With Apollinaire, he was in charge of development, outreach, and fundraising to plan and build the Apollinaire Black Box and the Riseman Family Theatre, as well as the Apollinaire Play Lab and the Co-Working Initiative. As a dramaturg he has worked with Ohio University's Department of Theatre and Tantrum Theatre in Columbus, OH. He is also the author of the interactive sci-fi play First Contact, available on Amazon Alexa.