Todd Bauer is a blind playwright, director, and lecturer. His play The Bird Feeder Doesn’t Know will receive a production at Raven Theatre in Chicago in Spring 2015. He is an ensemble member of the New York–based Apothetae company; Yoga and You received a staged reading at the Greenhouse Theater complex in Chicago; and Touch Tour had a staged reading at Griot Theater in Los Angeles in 2014. His play Downsizing Camus has received staged readings in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center, in New York at Theate
Todd has taught British and American drama at the Newberry Library since 2002 and was the American correspondent for Beat Scene magazine from 1994–2000. He earned a B.A. in accounting from Miami University and an M.A. in liberal studies from Northwestern University.
Other interesting life facts His childhood home was destroyed by a tornado while he was in the basement; he has been evacuated from a hurricane and stranded by a volcanic eruption in Ecuador. Todd has also run 2 marathons and lived with indigenous tribes in the Amazon and Indonesia.