Stuart Eugene Bousel, a graduate of Reed College, is the artistic director of No Nude Men Productions and the executive director of the San Francisco Olympians Festival. He has directed a number of classic plays, including Lysistrata , Oresteia , Faust Part One , Salome , Edward II , Le Cid , Love's Labors Lost , Hamlet , Phaedra , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Twelfth Night , M. Butterfly and The Frogs . He has also directed the world premieres of David Duman's Fishing , Alison Luterman's Oasis , Nirmala Nataraj's The Monk and The Book of Genesis Remixed and Remastered , Morgan Ludlow's Ruth and the Sea , and Claire Rice's Woman Come Down . Additionally, he writes plays, including The Exiled , Speak To Me , Love Egos Alternative Rock , Troijka , Housebroken , Speak Roughly , Edenites , Juno en Victoria and Polyxena in Orbit . His play Vincent of Gilgamesh was nominated for the MAC Award in 2001; Wild Blue Peaks was nominated for the Heideman Award in 2003; Mathew 33:6 was a finalist for the Sky Cooper Award in 2007. His work has been performed in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Melbourne, Dublin, Tucson and Portland. Most recently, he edited the drama collection SONGS OF HESTIA (EXIT Press, 2012).