JEROME MCDONOUGH (1947 - 1999): began writing at the age of ten after playing "Joe Crowell" in his father's production of Our Town at Amarillo College in 1957. McDonough stated that Thorton Wilder was one of his greatest influences. His plays began appearing in print in the early 1970's but did not really catch fire until nearly a decade later. By 1986, a McDonough script was named the most popular in the American Educational Theatre. Over the next several years, as many as four of his shows were listed among the top ten on the same list. His over forty published pieces have seen productions in all fifty states, every Canadian province, and eleven foreign countries. Dr. Rick Amidon of The English Journal applauds the tremendous impact of Jerome McDonough's plays and calls him "the father of young adult drama...works which question fitting in, popularity, sex, drus, making choices, taking chances." Jerome is listed in WHO'S WHO IN THE THEATRE and CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS. Mr. McDonough worked as a Theatre Arts teacher at Caprock High School, TX for twenty-five years.