PETER BONILLA was Literary Manager at InterAct Theatre Company from August 2005 to April 2008, serving as dramaturg of the company’s world premiere productions of Thomas Gibbons’ A HOUSE WITH NO WALLS and Seth Rozin’s BLACK GOLD, among others. He was on the literary committee of the National New Play Network, and for two years was on the reading committee for the NNPN’s Smith Prize. Originally from Washington, D.C., he received his undergraduate degrees in Theater Arts and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a 2008 recipient of a playwriting fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. A HUMAN EQUATION is his first play.

A HUMAN EQUATION
In the wake of 9/11, Congress creates an unprecedented fund to compensate the victims of the attacks. The special master of the fund, Kenneth Feinberg, finds himself elevated to a position of influence unequaled in American history. His task: to place unique values on each of the 3,000 lives that had been lost. In the course of his nearly 1,000 meetings with the families of 9/11, Feinberg becomes a lightning rod for their outrage, comes face to face with their grief and fear, and is forced to reconsider his most basic notions of human character and strength.