Biography
Kia Corthron's previous Humana Festival productions include Moot the Messenger, Slide Glide the Slippery Slope and The Open Road Anthology. Other productions include A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick (Playwrights Horizons/The Play Company/Culture Project), Light Raise the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop), Snapshot Silhouette (Children's Theatre Company), Slide Glide the Slippery Slope (Mark Taper Forum), The Venus de Milo is Armed (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Breath, Boom (The Royal Court Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre), Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (Yale Repertory Theatre, Center Stage, New York Stage and Film, Donmar Warehouse), Digging Eleven (Hartford Stage), Seeking the Genesis (Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club), Trickle (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Force Continuum (Atlantic Theater Company). Awards include a McKnight National Residency, the Callaway and Fadiman Awards, NEA/TCG, and in 2014 she was awarded a Windham Campbell Prize and was the Honored Playwright at the Great Plains Theatre Conference. She has also received Writers Guild and Edgar Allan Poe awards for The Wire. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and serves on the Dramatists Guild Council.
