Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon

Ruth Margraff has collaborated with Fred Ho on seven major theatre works since 1997, and is currently writing on a new opera with Big Red Media, Inc. She wrote a world folk opera last year in Greece on a Fulbright award, and was translated into Slovenian by the Wax Factory/PreGlej Naglas in Ljubljana. Her many plays and music-theatre works have been presented nationally, and in several countries abroad, including Serbia, Croatia, Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Turkey, India, and great Britain, under the sponsorship of Hourglass/Century, BAM Next Wave, CAMI, HERE, and the Guggenheim Museum, among others. Her texts have been published in American Theatre, Theater Forum, Backstage Books, Conjunctions. She has taught playwriting at UT/Michener Center, Brown University, Yale School of Drama, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Fred Ho is a Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, writer, producer, political activist and leader of the Afro Asian Music Ensemble and the Monkey Orchestra. He is a prolific composer who has written over a half dozen operas, music-theater epics, multimedia performance works, martial arts ballet, and oratorios. Ho received a Duke Ellington Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award from the Black Musicians Conference and the Harvard University Peter Ivers Visiting Artist Award. He has been a Master Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, an Artist Fellow at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program; resident artist at the Civitelli Ranieri center in Umbria, Italy; and resident scholar and visiting artist at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Ho helped to found the East Coast Asian Students Union, the Asian American Resource Workshop, the Asian American Arts Alliance.