KEN URBAN

Ken Urban's plays have been produced and developed at Summer Play Festival @ The Public, The Flea, The Chocolate Factory (NYC), Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Irish Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, The Lark, The Huntington, Moving Arts, Theatre of NOTE, and Soho Rep. He is the winner of the 2008 Weissberger Playwriting Award for his play Sense of an Ending. Other awards include the 2007-8 Huntington Playwriting Fellowship, the 2010-11 Dramatist Guild Fellowship, the 2009 Writers’ Room of Boston Emerging Writers Fellowship, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships (Summer 2008, Summer 2009) and a 2006 Tennessee Williams Fellowship. His plays are featured in the anthologies Plays and Playwrights 2002 and New York Theatre Review as well as numerous monologue collections. Ken has also written extensively on British and American theatre. He is currently writing an introduction to a new edition of Sarah Kane’s Blasted and an entry on Kane for the forthcoming Methuen Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights. He teaches at Harvard University.