Heidi Kraay examines the link between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. Her work pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to discover connections across difference. Plays include Unwind: Hindsight is 2020, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, New Eden, Me and My Shadow and Kilgore, as well as co-devised plays, one-acts, plays for young audiences and short plays. Her work has been presented where she lives in Boise, Idaho, regionally, in NYC and internationally, most recently through Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Boise Contemporary Theater, Climate Change Theatre Action, Surel’s Place, Barnard College, Spark Creative Works, West of Lenin, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Women’s Theatre Festival, Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre, Playwrights’ Round Table, Trinity Street Players, HomeGrown Theatre, Tomo Suru Players, Thingamajig Theatre Company, Radio Boise, the Alternative Theater Company, Campfire Theatre Festival and Seven Devils Playwrights Foundry. She has been a top finalist at the Women Playwrights’ Initiative, a finalist at City Theatre, Southwest Theatre Productions, Purple Crayon Players, the Local Theater, Campfire Theatre Festival and Creede Repertory Theatre’s Headwaters Festival, and a semi-finalist at Eugene O’Neill Center, PlayPenn, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Seven Devils Playwrights Foundry, Unicorn Theatre, The Local Theater, UP Theater Company and B-Street Theatre. Her work has been awarded grants from Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise City Department of Arts & History, The COVID Cultural Commissioning Fund, The Cabin, Alexa Rose Foundation and Boise Weekly. Recent publications include Smith & Kraus and Magical Women Magazine. Heidi co-founded Migration Theory, a physical art company for which she co-devised SuperSecretSiteSpecificSomething and small matters. Heidi holds an MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts from California Institute of Integral Studies and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. www.heidikraay.com