Born in Dallas, Texas, Judy B. Goss is an Arkansas playwright living in Little Rock. After local awards for one-acts, she received an Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship in 2000 for her first full-length play, FAULT LINES, revised as RAPTURE. Over a decade and several scripts later, she wrote “T.O.T. for A.Y.P, or the Certifiable Teacher,” cuing her exit from teaching drama at Parkview Arts/Science Magnet High School, where she sponsored the literary magazine and helped create "Tales of the Crypt," an living history performance by student writers and actors in Mount Holly Cemtery attended by 1,000+ people annually. She participated in the playwrights’ workshops at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2009, 2010 and 2012 with mentors Lee Blessing, Beth Henley, Daisy Foote and Dan O’Brien. In 2011 she produced FIRST FAREWELL, her play based on Sarah Bernhardt's first appearance in Little Rock, at Argenta Community Theater (ACT) to a favorable review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The commissioned children’s play “Lost My Shoe to a Wallaroo,” was presented by Hendrix College Players to elementary students in 2013. ACT commissioned her to write the premiere stage adaptation of the classic film MRS. MINIVER, which played to sold out houses in 2015. She adapted A CHRISTMAS CAROL from Charles Dickens’s novel for ACT, and it played annually, 2017-19, and will be produced through 2021 by ACT. In 2018 Goss formed Rolling River Playwrights Collective with John Haman and Werner Trieschmann, and they collaborated with Arkansas Repertory Theatre on the pilot program Plays in Progress at the REP, which featured a public reading of her play LIFE SCIENCE. She recently drafted two one acts, "Swamps on Fire" and "Family Tree" during #EndofPlay sponsored by the Dramatists Guild, of which she is a member.