Pat Montley, a Dramatist Guild member, has had 25 plays published separately, in anthologies or in textbooks. Her plays have had readings at the Kennedy Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Rep Stage (Md.) and the Abingdon Theatre Company (New York City) and productions at Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Clurman Theatre, Nat Horne Theatre, Baltimore Theater Project, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and many more festival, community theatres and universities. Her work has been supported by residencies at Millay Arts (N.Y.) and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (Calif.), and by grants from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, the Maryland and Pennsylvania Arts Councils, the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, the Baker Memorial Fund, the Shubert Foundation, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, and Warner Brothers. Montley has a master’s degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in theatre from the University of Minnesota. She has taught playwriting in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and in Pittsburgh at Chatham University, where she chaired the theatre department.