Marcia Eppich-Harris is the artistic director and founder of Southbank Theatre Company in Indianapolis. She holds a PhD in Shakespeare and Dramatic Literature and taught at the college level for over fifteen years. She is a playwright, lyricist, and composer. Marcia’s writing includes plays, musicals (composer/lyricist), fiction, poetry, scholarship, and reviews. Her creative writing is influenced by the literature and history of the ancient Greeks and Romans, the British Medieval and Renaissance periods, as well as current events. She focuses thematically on politics, philosophy, the arts, gender, family, and culture. Her most recent productions include a variety of ten minute plays and performances of her full-length plays Seneca and the Soul of Nero and The Profession, as well as her musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, for which she wrote the music and lyrics. The Profession was published by Next Stage Press in 2023.