The Authors
Authors
 The first time Kirk Hiner performed before an audience, he was cut off for talking about orgies. He was ten years old. And he was at church camp. In his defense, he just wanted to be like 80s rock icon Billy Squire; guilty of love in the first degree.
Hiner is a graduate of Ohio Northern University, where he was the first person in the history of the English program selected to write an original novel for his senior essay. That novel, along with his first, are available only in the murky depths of his basement. His third novel, Mowin' the Heavenly Lawn, is currently in print from Barnes & Noble, amongst other places. While at ONU, Kirk co-founded the comedy troupe "...just because," for which he wrote, directed and performed in more sketches than he probably should have.
When he's not in front of his computer writing plays, Hiner's in front of his computer designing websites for Dynamics Online, Inc. or writing Macintosh reviews/news/feature articles for Appletell.com and Applelinks.com. He is an active member of the Midwest Seahawkers and Grandview United Methodist Church.
Hiner lives with his wife, Tieraney, and two children, Sophie and Sam, in Mogadore, Ohio, a town with a regulation sized football field in its public park. You can learn more about Kirk and his other creative projects at www.kirkhiner.com.
 Jim Jividen was born in a bunk, mother died and his daddy got drunk, left him here to die or grow, in the middle of tobacco road. Through a combination of federal assistance and his own iron will, Jividen escaped his circumstances and, in a modern day Horatio Alger story, has climbed to the middle.
Jividen holds a Juris Doctor and is a former trial attorney, remaining a member of the California Bar Association by whom he has been licensed to practice since 1995. Jividen is also a historian, having earned a perfect 4.0 GPA while gaining a Master's Degree in United States History. For the past several years, Jividen has been an Instructor of Paralegal Studies at a small college below the Mason-Dixon line; a position which neither is prestigious nor highly paid, but one which provides him the time to tend to matters such as crafting his own personal biography...which he is doing right now during class.
Jividen has been a nationally recognized competitive speaker, was named a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar, is a card carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union, is the author of the wildly successful blogs What If Steamboat Beat Hogan? and The Blog of Revelations, and also wrote 50 episodes of the cult classic Inside the IIWF, beloved by internet wrestling aficionados around the globe. Jividen has been listed in Who's Who, co-founded the comedy troupe "...just because," has given pedestrian acting performances in about a dozen plays, coined the phrase "janitor pillow fights," and won an assload of cash on ESPN's game show, 2 Minute Drill, in 2000. Check local listings for date and time in your area.
Jividen lives alone with his cat, who doesn't much care for him, playwright or not. You can learn all you'd ever want to know about Jim (but not about his cat) at his MySpace site or by reading the vituperative Lima Playfair production blog.
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