Playwrights
Lorraine Ash of Allendale, NJ is the Features Editor of The Daily Record, in Morristown, for which she also writes an award winning (Rose and Scroll) column Woman to Woman. Over her fifteen years as a journalist, Ash has won more than a dozen awards in news, feature, and public service writing on both state and national levels. A bachelor's degree from Drew University and a masters degree from Fordham University accredit her formidable research skills which are particularly suited to the demands of The History Project. While admitting that her primary creative writing interest is fiction, she has found the dramatic form demanding and rewarding, especially in working with the presidents. Ash won her wings with Tyler, continued onward by going backward (in time) to Monroe and she is currently at work on Jackson. She has traveled extensively, from Bangkok to Madrid, from Mexico City to Maui.
R. David Cox was born and raised in Indiana and completed both undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Colorado in English and theatre. He spent much of his professional life in and about New York, NY as a writer, professor and college dean. His writing ranges from four texts in his joint fields as well as newspaper columns, essays, and plays. His plays and other dramatic pieces have been performed on television and stage, largely on the eastern seaboard and in New York. Cox's interest in the historical drama grew from the patriotic fervor of 1976 and has continued to this day as demonstrated by the four plays under his name in the Character in Time series and which served as the impetus for the formation of The History Project, Inc. The interest in playwriting grew not only from his academic work, but experience as an actor and director in the theatre as well. Cox has a weekly column on the Internet which can be found at http://www.valink.com/fauxpaws.
David S. Grogan of Keaau, Hawaii is a retired minister of The United Church of Christ and a graduate of DePauw University and the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center, MA. Although a native of West Bend, WI, Grogan has traveled the nation in varying capacities: from Indiana (DePauw) to Colorado as a printer, to Florida and Massachusetts as a student and eventually Executive Secretary of the Cape Cod Council of Churches as well as pastor of the Leyden Congregational Church in Brookline, MA. Thence he returned to Colorado as a mountain building inspector (Gilpin County) and became involved in politics and real estate. Subsequently he led two Congregational churches in Loveland and Denver. Grogan has been an actor (on stage and in films and television), director and entrepreneur, as well as a newspaper columnist. Now living with his wife in Hawaii, he is a retired pastor of two Hawaiian churches, studies the piano, and wrote John Quincy Adams for The History Project.
V. A. Dixcord calls himself an "itinerate employee, writer, teacher, bent on accomplishing as little as possible in the longest possible time." His accomplishments to date seem to follow that tongue-in-cheek self-evaluation. He has taught in such disparate places as Wayne and Newark, NJ, Brunswick, ME, Long Island, NY, Bloomington, IN and to such groups as the American Institute of Banking and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers among others. His one-act plays have been mounted in Massachusetts, British Columbia, Vermont, New York, and Connecticut and his employment has ranged (other than teaching) from carpenter to landscaper, from ad copywriter/designer to librarian. Dixcord lists his semi-permanent residence as Notch, NC.