Kia Corthron
Affiliated Writer
New York, NY
Biography

Kia Corthron's plays include A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick (Playwrights Horizons co-production with The Play Company and the Culture Project), Steel Hammer (co-writer, Anne Bogart/SITI Company, ATL Humana, BAM, national and international tours), Trickle (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Life by Asphyxiation (The Drama Club at Joe's Pub, Playwrights Horizons), Moot the Messenger (ATL Humana), Light Raise the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop), Snapshot Silhouette (Minneapolis' Children's Theatre), Slide Glide the Slippery Slope (ATL Humana, Mark Taper Forum), The Venus de Milo Is Armed (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), 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), Seeking the Genesis (Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club), Digging Eleven (Hartford Stage Company), Wake Up Lou Riser (Delaware Theatre Company), Come Down Burning (American Place Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre), Cage Rhythm (Sightlines/The Point in the Bronx). She was the 2017 resident playwright at Chicago's Eclipse Theatre, which produced three of her plays including the premiere of Megastasis. For her body of work she has been honored with the Playwrights' Center's McKnight National Residency, the Otto Award for Political Theatre; the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the USArtists Jane Addams Fellowship, the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award (Honored Playwright), and the League of Professional Theatre Women's Lee Reynolds Award. Other awards/fellowships: Masterwork Productions Award, VCCA Wachtmeister Award, Columbia College/Goodman Theatre Fellowship, Barbara Barondess MacLean Foundation Award, AT&T On Stage Award, Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, Mark Taper Forum's Fadiman Award, NEA/TCG, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, Callaway Award. Currently she is commissioned by Arena Stage. TV: Writers Guild Outstanding Drama Series Award and Edgar Award for The Wire. Her debut novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter was the winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She serves on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, is a New Dramatists alumnus, and is a member of the Authors Guild.

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