JOE RIZZO Joe Rizzo was born in Buffalo, New York in the summer of 1965. Before he was even in kindergarten, he was already performing tap numbers with his family as part of his motherís dance studio. In 1979 he moved away from his family at the age of fourteen to Soldotna, Alaska where he worked his way through high school working as a theatre technician and taking roles in school shows. He graduated from Utah State University in 1992 and has been teaching drama and English ever since. In addition to being a high school teacher, he runs a non-profit organization that promotes children's theater. Recently Joe has written, produced, and published a number of stage plays, including On the Same Frequency (Brooklin Publishing 2002) and A Substantial Risk (Eldridge Publishing, 2003).