Kia Corthron (
Playwright) is the recipient of the 2020 Dramatists Guild Flora Roberts Award. Other honors for her body of work include the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, USArtists Jane Addams Fellowship, McKnight National Residency, Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, and she was the 2017 Eclipse Theatre Company Playwright in Residence. Her plays, which include
Breath, Boom,
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, and
Megastasis, have premiered in New York by Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre; in London by the Royal Court Theatre and Donmar Warehouse; and across the U.S. by Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mark Taper Forum, Goodman Theatre, Minneapolis’ Children’s Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, Baltimore’s CenterStage, Hartford Stage, and others. In 2018 she co-produced
Imagine: Yemen, an evening of short plays addressing the humanitarian catastrophe, and her contributed short musical was animated and presented in London at the United Nations/UK We the People’s Film Festival 2019. Her debut novel
The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. TV:
The Jury,
The Wire. New Dramatists alumnus, Dramatists Guild Council member.