HALLIE PALLADINO is a Chicago-based playwright and essayist. Recent plays include THE PERSUADABLES (Centenary Stage Women’s Playwrights Festival; Prop Thtr Church of the New Play), OPERATION MARSHMALLOW FLUFF (Broken Nose Theatre’s Bechdel Fest), ATTACHMENT DISORDER (NoMad Arts Collective), DERAILED (O’Neill Semi-Finalist; Broken Bells Reading Series), INFATUATION (Ojai Playwrights Conference, Chicago New Works Festival, Dandelion Theater Reservoir Series) MISSED CONNECTIONS (Wayward Sisters, Idle Muse Theater’s Athena Festival; Pride Films & Plays LezPlay Festival) THE HANUKKAH STORY (Three Cat Productions “Holiday Radio Show 1943”) and SUNRISE ARDMORE BEACH (Something Marvelous Festival). She is also a contributor to the theater website Rescripted. Hallie is a member of The Dramatists Guild. Her plays are available on the New Play Exchange