Ethan Kass is known for Murder in the First (2014) and Benefits (2008). He was a 2013 Pony nominee at the Lark Play Development Center and his play, Square Peg Round Hole, was a 2012 O’Neill National Playwrights semi-finalist. Fat, a dramedy that examines obesity, was a 2013 semi-finalist for the Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship and a 2013 Bay Area Playwrights semi-finalist.