ANGIE LOUISE received her BA in Rhetoric (Creative Writing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, winning a Quinn Fellowship for her writing portfolio, an Academy of American Poets Prize for her poetry, high departmental distinction, a Pape Award for critical scholarship, and two Trelease Fiction Awards for her short fiction. Out of school, Louise wrote stage series Shuddering Pines, a soap-opera parody that was a late-night fringe-theatre hit at Seattle's Rm 608 Gallery for Performing Arts on Capitol Hill. With a new script every month, The Stranger called the show "Superb…An instant tradition, not to be missed." Journeying into darker wilds of satire, Louise wrote Gory Gory Hallelujah, a feature film produced by Von Piglet Productions and distributed by Indican Films. Described as "A bawdy, surreal art-musical with zombies that also happens to be the most intelligent movie about Christianity in ages" (Nashville Rage), Gory Gory was selected for international festivals in London, Switzerland, and South Korea, winning Best Picture (Fantasy) at Shockerfest in Los Angeles and a special award from Oscar-winning director Gus Van Sant at BendFilm. Released theatrically in 2005, this film is now available on DVD through Netflix, Best Buy, and other national distribution outlets. In 2005, Louise collaborated with Gory Gory director Sue Corcoran to co-write Circus of Infinity, a short film that uses the journey of a dwarf shot out of a cannon as a metaphor for life. Circus premiered at the 2005 Seattle International Film Festival and won a prize at the 2006 First Annual Science Fiction Film Festival. Louise has also worked as a playwright for Village Theatre's KIDSTAGE program and as a scriptwriter for Microsoft in-house production projects (samples available upon request). She is currently working to complete her first novel, Baby, the darkly comic story of a lady novelist trying to write her own pregnancy out of existence. She is also working on a screenplay for a second feature film for Von Piglet Productions, a sci-fi battle of the sexes based on a story by Sue Corcoran and Angie Louise.