KARA LEE CORTHRON

Kara Lee Corthron’s plays include Julius by Design (Fulcrum), Etched in Skin on a Sunlit Night (InterAct Theatre), AliceGraceAnon (New Georges), Holly Down in Heaven (Princess Grace Award), Spookwater, Listen for the Light, Electric Persephone in the Scorpion’s Den, and Wild Black-Eyed Susans.  Other awards/honors include: The Vineyard Theatre’s 3rd Annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, two NEA grants, the Helen Merrill Award, Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize (three-time recipient), an E.S.T./Sloan Commission, the Theodore Ward Prize, the New Professional Theatre Writers Award, two MacDowell fellowships, residencies at Skriðuklaustur (Iceland), the Millay Colony, and Ledig House, and teaching artist-in-residence positions at Spalding University and Ohio University.  Current commissions: South Coast Rep and New Georges.  Her plays have been produced and/or developed at the African Continuum Theatre (D.C.), Ars Nova, CenterStage (Baltimore), Electric Pear, E.S.T., Horizon Theatre (Atlanta), the Kennedy Center, Naked Angels, New Dramatists, New Georges, NYTW, The Orchard Project, Page 73, Penumbra, PlayPenn Conference, The Shalimar, TheatreWorks (Palo Alto), the Vineyard Theatre, and Voice & Vision among others. TV: writer for NBC’s "Kings" (2008-2009). Kara is a Juilliard alumna, instructor at Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the 2010-2011 Ars Nova Play Group, ‘Wright On! Playwrights Group (co-founder), Blue Roses Productions, the Dramatists Guild, and the Writers Guild of America.

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