Gary Young's plays, mostly dealing with social issues, have been produced and performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the White House, the Smithsonian, and venues throughout the US and Europe. He has worked with Jean Kennedy Smith as a coordinator for the National Very Special Arts Festival, and has produced festivals and written successful grant proposals to fund programs for, by, and with disabled populations and the underprivileged. Funding agencies include the former HEW, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Mobil Oil, US Airlines, and several private foundations.  His play, Interruptions - A life, a death, pizza, dancing and Murphy’s Law, premiered at the Kennedy Center, and enjoyed a very successful West Coast premier in Los Angeles, June through September, 2000, at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood.  His ON HOLD: The MYTH of Male Maturity, will have its world premiere in 2006.  Gary is the President of the Publishers Association of Los Angeles, the Executive Director of the Lifetime Achievement Foundation, and the Director of Professional Development for the Independent Writers of Southern California, Vice-Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. Both Gary and his wife, Kathy, are working with the Department of Education, revising and upgrading the relevance and appropriateness of the Nation’s Report Card, and working to erase the racial/economic inequities of the SAT exam.