PLAYWRIGHT | WRITER | PEACE ACTIVIST - This week, our guest is KAREN MALPEDE. Karen

Malpede, Co-founder of Theater Three Collaborative, is author of 16 plays produced in the United States,

Europe and Australia, as well as short fiction, and essays and articles on theater and human rights. Her

newest play "Another Life" will be staged at John Jay College and the Irondale Theater Center in New York

this fall under her direction. Her play, "Prophecy" premiered in London in 2008 and Malpede directed the New

York premiere in 2010. It is scheduled for production in Los Angels in 2012. "Prophecy" has been published,

along with six other anti-war plays by prominent playwrights, in the anthology "Acts of War: Iraq &

Afghanistan in Seven Plays" which is currently available for purchase on Amazon.com and most book stores. It

was published by Northwestern University Press.