Dana Yeaton teaches dramatic writing at Middlebury College and is Playwright-in-Residence at Vermont Stage Company.  He is the recipient of many playwriting awards, including the “New Voice in American Theatre Award" from the William Inge Theatre Festival, the Heideman Award from the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and the Moss Hart Award from the New England Theatre Conference.  His stage adaptation of Chris Bohjalian's best-selling novel Midwives premiered at the Flynn Theatre in Burlington, Vermont has since been produced at the Clarence Brown Theatre in Tennessee and at North Carolina Stage.  Mr. Yeaton has received three fellowships in playwriting from the Vermont Arts Council and two from the Shenandoah International Playwrights Retreat.  His plays in print include Alice In Love, The Big Random, Helen At Risk, Mad River Rising, Men In Heat, and Midwives.  In addition to Middlebury College, he has taught at the University of Tennessee, University of Vermont and at the Vermont Governor’s Institute on the Arts.  He is Founding Director of the Vermont Young Playwrights Project.