Kia Corthron's Moot the Messenger premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville's 2005 Humana Festival. Sam's Coming was workshopped at New York Stage and Film. In 2004 Light Raise the Roof premiered at New York Theatre Workshop and Snapshot Silhouette at The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. 2003: Slide Glide the Slippery Slope (ATL Humana and Los Angeles‚ Mark Taper Forum) and The Venus de Milo Is Armed (Alabama Shakespeare Festival).  Other plays: Breath, Boom (London's Royal Court Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre and elsewhere), Force Continuum (Atlantic Theater Company), Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (New York Stage and Film, Baltimore's Center Stage, Yale Rep, London's Donmar Warehouse Theatre), Seeking the Genesis (Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club), Digging Eleven (Hartford Stage Company), Life by Asphyxiation (Playwrights Horizons), Wake Up Lou Riser (Delaware Theatre Company), Come Down Burning (American Place Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre), Cage Rhythm (Sightlines/The Point in the Bronx).  Awards include the Barbara Barondess MacLean Foundation Award, the AT&T On Stage Award, the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, the Mark Taper Forum's Fadiman Award, National Endowment for the Arts/TCG, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, and the Callaway Award. In the fall of 2006, she had a second workshop of Tap the Leopard at the Guthrie Theater, inspired by her trip to Liberia sponsored by the theatre.  Currently she is working on a co-commission for Cincinnati Playhouse and Otterbein College.  Kia is also currently working on a project with Lebo M, South African composer of The Lion King, on the new Disney musical.  Kia is an alumna of New Dramatists.

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PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP FOR NATIVE WRITERS

The McKnight National Residency & Commission Reading:

Having gone through personal trauma during the turbulent '60s, Mum wanted a quiet life: a librarian's position in a quiet town. But the unresolved past has its part in the present, and the present is no picnic either: from COINTELPRO and the Panthers to the PATRIOT Act, Big Brother continues to hover.