PAUL PEDITTO has lived and traveled in Costa Rica for over 16 years. He wrote and directed Jane Doe, an A-PIX Films release starring Calista Flockhart. The film was awarded Best Feature at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival. His screenplays have been optioned to Haft Entertainment (Emma, Dead Poet's Society) and won semi-finalist honors at the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Awards. Four of his stage plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing Company, two of which were presented on National Public Radio's "Chicago Theaters On The Air" series. Over 25 productions of his theatrical work have been performed in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York. His adaptation of Nelson Algren's Never Come Morning won 9 Joseph Jefferson Citations including Best Play and Best Adaptation. His adaptation of Ben Hecht's 1,001 Afternoons In Chicago is a two-time Jefferson Award nominee. Pura Vida, a stage play based on the novel, was produced at Chicago's Live Bait Theater in July '03, earning a feature article in the New York Times.