W. David Hancock's plays include Master, The Convention of Cartography, The Race of the Ark Tattoo, Deviant Craft, The Puzzle Locker, and Our Lot (with Kristin Newbom). Hancock's work has been produced by the Foundry, Frontera, Clubbed Thumb, Rude Mechanicals, New City Theatre, Studio Roanoke, Salvage Vanguard, People's Light & Theatre Company, Empty Space, Abbey Theatre (Dublin), Compagnie Elapse (Paris), and Théâtre des Carmes (Avignon). Ark Tattoo was recently installed at the Christian Bernst Gallery (Paris). Hancock's fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Hunger Mountain Review, Permafrost, and (with Spencer Golub) Chicago Quarterly Review and Pear Noir!. He has received two Obie Awards for Playwriting, the Whiting Award, and a Cal Arts/Alpert Award. Current projects include Cathexis, an interactive, robot facilitated judicial event co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, and created in collaboration with Compagnie Elapse and partners in Holland, Belgium, Serbia and Bosnia.