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| Mrinalini Kamath Mrinalini Kamath's plays have been performed around the country as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia and India. She was a semi-finalist for both the 2006 O'Neill and Seven Devils Playwrights Conferences and was Fluid Motion Theatre and Film's inaugural Start the Story commission recipient (2006). She won first place in the 2005 East West Players (Los Angeles, CA) Got Laughs? Asian-American Comedy Play Contest, was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2003 Sewanee Writers' Conference in Sewanee, Tennessee, and a finalist for the 2004 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Three of her short plays have been work-shopped at the New Play Development Workshop of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and several have been published in the Smith and Kraus anthologies, Best Stage Scenes of 1999, Best Stage Scenes of 2000, The Best Ten Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors, 2004 and the upcoming The Best Ten Minute Plays for Two Actors, 2007.
She is a member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writers' Lab, the Dramatists Guild, an alumnus of Youngblood, the emerging playwrights' collective at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a Dramatists Guild representative to the board of the New York Coalition for Professional Women in the Arts and Media (NYCWAM). Ms. Kamath received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School of the New School University.
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| Honour Kane. Honour Kane's work has been produced by The Public Theater, Sydney's annual Mardi Gras Arts Festival, and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her plays have been developed by A.S.K. at Lincoln Center Theatre and London's Royal Court Theatre, PlayLabs, Oregon's Portland Center Stage, Irish Repertory Theatre, and City Theatre in Pittsburgh. A current member of New Dramatists, she holds fellowships from the NEA, a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard/Radcliffe, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. |
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| Stephen Karam is the author of Sons of the Prophet (2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, Sam Norkin Drama Desk Award), which recently ended its extended off-Broadway run in New York City (Roundabout Theatre Company) following its debut in Boston by the Huntington Theatre Company. Other plays include Speech & Debate (inaugural production of Roundabout Underground), columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop), and Girl on Girl (Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep). His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, American Theatre Magazine, Northwestern University Press and Dramatic Publishing Co.; he has also written online for NY Magazine, The Advocate and McSweeney's. A MacDowell Colony Fellow, Stephen grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Brown University. www.stephenkaram.com |
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| Scott Kasbaum is a veteran musical director and composer for Stage One, Louisville's Professional Children's Theatre, and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Pinnochio was produced on video by Global Stage and won the Sesame Street Parents award for best musical. Other plays he's co-authored have been seen at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Children's Theatre and Childsplay in Phoenix. He now resides on Beaver Island, MI, and still works around the country. |
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| Mark D. Kaufmann is the author of a number of plays which have had premieres in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Included among them: Backbone of America, Scenic Route, The Labors of Hercules Fitch, and Evil Little Thoughts, which won the Denver Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play. He has been associated with the Educational Theatre Association for several years, regularly teaching at their teachers' state and national conferences. Mr. Kaufmann lives in Los Angeles where he writes for film and television and directs stage productions. |
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| Victor Kaufold has had productions at The Hudson Theatre (Los Angeles), The Avery Theatre (Annandale), and The Yale Cabaret. His full-length plays include The Why, Tethered, The Special Interest Case of Special Agent Esteban Martinez, Muke the Inquisitive, The Death of Milton Hubbell, and Bridesburg. The Why was produced by The Blank Theatre in Los Angeles in 2000 and was nominated for an Ovation award for best new play. Now published with Playscripts, Inc., it has enjoyed numerous performances in and outside of the country. Mr. Kaufold currently teaches English at Borough of Manhattan Community College and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. |
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Kevin Kautzman is a playwright originally from North Dakota pursuing his M.F.A. with a focus in playwriting and screenwriting as a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He began studying playwriting in London at the Royal Court Theatre, where he became a core writer out of the Young Writers Program. He has received commissions from Red Eye and History Theatre, and his work has been performed, read and/or developed at places including the American Story Project, the Living Theatre, the New Theatre Project, Nouveau 47, the Players' Guild Theater, the Playwrights' Center, Poliglot Theater, the Soho Theatre Studio (UK), the UK National Student Drama Festival, and Zeitgeist Theater. Honors include the Jerome and Michener fellowships and Tennessee Williams Scholarship (Then Waves), Lavender Magazine's Best Playwriting (Iris), and the International Student Playscript Competition and Repertory Theatre Iowa's Alpha Project awards (Coyote). He has been a finalist for the Yale Drama Series and Pen Center awards (Then Waves) and the NNPN Smith Prize (Quiver).
He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota, where he studied history and philosophy, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild Inc., the Playwrights' Center, and Scriptworks. More information about his work, along with script excerpts, can be found at www.kevinkautzman.com. |
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| Elise Kauzlaric is a Chicago-based actress, adapter, and dialect coach. She is a member of the artistic ensemble of Lifeline Theatre, which specializes in bringing literary adaptations to the stage. Her adaptations of The Velveteen Rabbit and Half Magic were both originally produced for Lifeline's KidSeries. Ms. Kauzlaric holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts. |
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| Robert Kauzlaric is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, and director. He has written twelve theatrical adaptations which have been produced in eighteen states around the U.S., as well as in Ireland, England, and Canada. His adaptations include The Island of Dr. Moreau (Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards: Best Production-Play and New Adaptation), The Picture of Dorian Gray (nominated for New Adaptation), Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (Non-Equity Jeff Award: New Adaptation), The Three Musketeers (commissioned for the 2010 Illinois Shakespeare Festival), and Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. For children, Mr. Kauzlaric has created musical adaptations of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! and Peter Brown's Flight of the Dodo. |
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| Leon Kaye has written more than fifteen screenplays and five full-length stageplays. His comedy, Where There's No Will, had a one week run in New York City in March 2006. Many of his plays have been produced and published. Mr. Kaye lives in New York with his wife and two children. |
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| Zoe Kazan is an actor and writer, born in Santa Monica, California and currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. As an actor, her Broadway credits include The Seagull and Come Back, Little Sheba. Off-Broadway she appeared in Things We Want, 100 Saints You Should Know and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Ms. Kazan was a recipient of the Clarence Derwent Award in the 2007-2008 Season. Absalom, her first play, was workshopped at Lincoln Center Theater LAB and had readings at The Vineyard Playhouse, The Ensemble Studio Theatre and Yale University. |
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| Yokanaan Kearns was raised in Hawaii and spent ten years in exile in various U.S. states. He tends to write about personal identity in multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural communities. His PhD in Classics from UCLA came in handy while writing Dis/Troy, a stage adaptation of Homer's Iliad, which was commissioned by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and developed at the Kennedy Center's New Visions / New Voices program and at the Playwrights in Our Schools program supported by the Alliance for Theatre Education and the Children's Theatre Foundation of America. Mr. Kearns' other plays include How Kitty Got Her Pidgin Back; Pidg Latin, which received the AT&T: Onstage grant; Choice (commissioned by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and the Honolulu Sex Abuse Treatment Center); and Maui vs. Hercules (commissioned by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth). He also served as dramaturg for the Honolulu Theatre for Youth's production of The Stones. Mr. Kearns lives, works, and writes in Hawaii. The living part he does with his wife and son. |
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| Richard Keller. Mr. Keller's plays have been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre Row, Manhattan Punchline Theatre, Thirteenth Street Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre's Octoberfest, Westbank Cafe, and La MaMa, among other theaters. He is a 2004 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, a past recipient of a Creative Artist Grant in Playwriting from the Michigan Council of the Arts, and a past Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts. His one-act plays have been published in several anthologies, including: Ten-Minute Plays: Volume 6 From Actors Theatre of Louisville (Samuel French, 2005), The Art of the One-Act (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2007), among other publications. Mr. Keller is a past director of dramaturgy at Syracuse Stage. He lives in Ithaca, New York with his wife, Karen, and their daughter, Sasha. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a founding member of the Turnip Theatre Company. |
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| Jesse Kellerman received his BA in psychology from Harvard University and a Master's of Fine Arts in playwriting from Brandeis University. His plays have won several awards, including the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best New Play (Fafrotskies, 2003), the Princess Grace Foundation Award (Things Beyond Our Control, 2003), and the Best of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Very, Very Small Things, 2001). He recently signed a two-book deal with Putnam/Berkeley; his first novel, Sunstroke, will be published in 2006.
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| Jared Kelner is a Meisner and Strasberg trained actor who has appeared professionally on television and on stage, owned and operated an acting school in San Jose, California and now teaches the adult acting class at the Playhouse Acting Academy in East Brunswick, NJ. In addition to acting, Jared Kelner is also an adjunct professor at Mercer County Community College in central New Jersey where he teaches memory improvement training seminars. In 2006, Mr. Kelner started a consulting company called The Infinite Mind Training group that offers memory improvement training seminars to sales and management teams. A few companies that Mr. Kelner has delivered his memory improvement training seminars to are Cisco Systems, SES Satellites, Factiva/Dow Jones, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Intermodal Management Systems, Educational Testing Service and The National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses. Mr. Kelner has enjoyed a 15 year successful career in corporate sales where dynamic public speaking is a critical part of his success. Mr. Kelner has combined his expertise as a memory improvement trainer with his passion for acting and teaching to create his new book Line? The Creative Way for Actors to Quickly Memorize Monologues and Dialogues. Mr. Kelner's first book, The Chamberlain Negotiation Principles: A Tale of Five Must Know Negotiation Tenets and the Insight Behind the Principles to Help You Succeed is currently on the reading lists in the business departments at five universities across America. To learn more about Jared Kelner, please visit www.jaredkelner.com. |
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| Nicole Kempskie is a lyricist, writer, theatre and media educator, director/choreographer, and Arts Education consultant in New York City. She co-founded and served as Artistic Director of Brooklyn Children's Theatre for seven years, developing the training programs and curriculum, as well as directing, choreographing, writing, and commissioning musicals for young performers. She has written over ten musicals for the company, including the book and lyrics for Bugtown!, The Elephant Prince, Sunset Park, and The Princely Frog with composer Robby Stamper, now being produced in schools throughout New York.
As a theatre educator, she is on the faculty of the City College of New York's graduate Educational Theatre program, and has led master workshops and classes for Broadway Teacher's Lab, Broadway Classroom, ProMusica, Arts Connection, TADA, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York University, the NYC Department of Education, Music Theatre International, and the Lucy Moses Summer Theatre Workshop at the Kaufman Center. She is a curriculum developer and study guide writer for BAM, and the Manager of School and Family programs at The Paley Center for Media.
Her directing and choreography has been seen at The American Theatre of Actors (Helen on 86th St.), North Shore Music Theatre (Rapunzel, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown), East Side Middle School (Once on this Island Jr., Seussical Jr., Willy Wonka Jr.), The Brearley School (She Loves Me), Poly Prep (Our Town), The New Players (The Wiz), Merkin Concert Hall/Kaufman Center (Sunshine, Helen, The Snow Queen, Monsoon Summer), the Bank Street Theatre (New York revival of The Moonlight Room), and for Disney (The Aristocats), Music Theatre International (Dear Edwina Jr.) and New York University (Hair). She was the Associate Choreographer for TheatreworksUSA's touring musical production of Max and Ruby.
She began her theatrical career as an actor, performing at numerous local and regional theatres (The Atlantic, The Huntington Theatre, Trinity Rep, Lyric Stage, American Stage Festival, The Public Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre). She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Providence College and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Theatre and Sociology) from New York University. |
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| Rob Kendt is a songwriter/composer for the theater whose credits include The Devil and Tom Walker, Power, An Inconvenient River, and The Inheritors at the Metropolitan Playhouse; An Appalachian Twelfth Night at the Globe Playhouse (LA Drama Critics Circle award nomination); Suicide in B Flat at Company of Angels; Uncle Vanya at the Classical Theatre Lab, and projects with Cornerstone Theatre Company and the Evidence Room. He is currently a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. |
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| Bobby Keniston has been writing and acting in plays for as long as he can remember. He attended Boston University's School For the Arts to study acting, and graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, with a degree in theater. For the past several years, he has been acting and directing at several theaters in Maine, including the historic Lakewood Theater, and Center Theater in his home town of Dover-Foxcroft. His plays have been performed for the MEACT Festival, and for several high schools and middle schools in the state of Maine. |
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| Adrienne Kennedy. Since Funnyhouse of a Negro blazed a trail in the American Theatre, Adrienne Kennedy's work has had a profound influence on American playwrights. Her plays The Owl Answers, Ohio State Murders, A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White, and her remarkable short plays: An Evening With Dead Essex, The Film Club, A Lesson in Dead Language, She Talks to Beethoven, and A Rat's Mass have enriched our concept of the possible on stage for the past thirty years and given us a vocabulary of dramatic technique no other writer has explored: the fragmentation of identity, the haunting use of repetition, the creation of elegiac language, an alienation of/and from canonical literature, and the journeys of race, gender, and sexual ruptures from the scripted and policed behaviors that a dominant culture has enforced. But her dream logic, her steadfast persistence, her witnessing to a vibrancy beneath the surface, feels triumphant. With a passion, a courage, a personal investment and visibility in her work, Ms. Kennedy continues to change the landscape of American drama with a wealth of plays whose importance will continue to inspire all in this field.
Ms. Kennedy is a three time Obie-award winner. Among her many honors are the Guggenheim fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, PEN/Laura Pels Award for Master American Dramatist, and Anisfield-Wolf Book's Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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| Stuart Kenny began writing musicals in high school when he wrote the score for a local production of A Christmas Carol. He spent summers home from college as musical director for the Storybook Players in Rapid City, South Dakota. For his M.A., he wrote a children's musical. After finishing his Ph.D., he gave up on scholarship and began writing musicals again. James Larson gave him the chance to write the score for the mainstage production and national tour of The Little Engine That Could. This led to There's An Alligator... He currently lives in Hastings, Nebraska. |
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