Topher Payne is the literary manager for Atlanta's Process Theatre, a company dedicated to fostering the development of new works. His works include Beached Wails, which will receive its seventh production in Florida in Spring of 2005; Relations Unknown at Process Theatre; a Vietnam-era adaptation of Cyrano, commissioned by Atlanta Classical Theatre; Things Are Looking Up, commissioned by Horizon Theatre Company; Chip Jennings and the Meaning of it All and Home Fires Burning, both produced by Late Night New Stage in Mississippi; and an adaptation of Jo Carson's Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet, produced in Mississippi and Georgia. His play Ashes to Ashes, Spud to Spud, co-authored with Clint Thornton, was produced by kef productions in June 2004 at The Charlie Pineapple Theatre in Williamsburg. He is currently at work on a play about the life of Joan Crawford. His musings have appeared in Southern Voice, Express Gay News, Houston Voice, Washington Blade, and New York Blade. Topher's pop culture column, Dyke and Fag Discuss, co-authored with Kristin Johnson, appears bi-weekly in Atlanta's David Magazine.

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