thanks
THE DIG was developed with the generous institutional support of
the University of Southern California Visions & Voices program
The Durfee Foundation; 
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
Mishkan Omanim (the Artists Residency), Herzliya
the Fulbright Foundation

I worked on this play for a long time, and have so many people to thank: Naomi Ackerman; Tzvi and Hannah z”l Avni, Tel Aviv; Olivia Barham; Adila Barnes and the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival; Deborah Baron; Marty Berg; Leslie Berg; Harriet and Irving z”l Berg; Aaron Burke; Pamela Berlin and William Carden; Jeffrey and Deborah Birns; Esther Blachman; Joey Borgogna, Meghan Gallagher, and Kathy Eldon of the Creative Visions Foundation; Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena; Elya Braden; Maris Bredt; Ann Bronston; Tedi Brown; Anita Byrd; Diana Castle and Steve Tietsort of The Imagined Life Studio; Susan Cohen of the University Montana, who let me dig with her in Gesher; Aryeh Cohen and Andrea Hodos; Frankie Colmane; Julie Coren; Mary Culbert; Rabbi Bill Cutter; Lynn Swartz Dodd; Rivka Dori, who helped me read the Biblical text; Reuben Dori; John Eisner and The Lark Play Development Center; Jenny Factor, Steve Heller, and Gayle Brandeis of the Antioch University Los Angeles MFA Writing Program; Richard Fancy; Laura Favin; Malka Fenyvesi; Estelle Fisher; Marilyn Fox and the members of Pacific Resident Theatre; Yossi Garfinkel of Israel Antiquities; Varda Genossar and Mishkan Omanim (the Artists Residency); Tom Gilbert, director of the Gilbert Group at the University of Copenhagen; Allison Gillman; Gary Grossman and Tony Abatemarco of the Skylight Theatre; Allan Harris and Cheryl Younger; Aziza Hasan and the Change-Makers of New Ground Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change; Galit Hassan Rokem and Freddie Rokem, Jerusalem; Nomi Heller z”l and Joseph Blum; Beth Hogan and the Odyssey Theatre; Daniel Housman; Mariel Howsepian; Anne Hromadka and Adam Greenwald; Mary Kadosh; Michael Kass; Gad and Ahuva Kaynar, Tel Aviv; Sarah Kinder; Hugh King and Karen Pedersen; Katherine Kobayashi; Ellen Krieger; everyone !!! from Latino Theater Company; Babette Markus-Weir; Ruth Milberg; New Georges NYC; Jeff and Susan Oliver; Yael Pardess; Lucy Pollak; John z”l and Ruth Rauch; Chantal Rodriguez; Betsy Salkind; Kenneth Schlesinger; Mary Skinner; Joseph Smallhoover; Rick Stein; Theatre Three NYC; Esther Wolkowitz; Joseph Valdez; Jose Luis Valenzuela and Evelina Ferdnandez; Susan Waller; Ruth Weisberg; Rabbi Barbara Zacky; Lori Zimmerman; Bruce Zuckerman and the USC Department of Religion