Ifa Bayeza is an award-winning playwright, producer, and conceptual theater artist. Her works for the stage include "Amistad Voices", "Club Harlem", "Kid Zero", "Homer G & the Rhapsodies", and "The Ballad of Emmett Till", winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play and a 2007 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference fellowship. A graduate of Harvard University, Bayeza is a board member of the SonEdna Literary Foundation. She lives in Chicago.