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About the Playwright...

Karen Hartman is the author of Goliath (Dorothy Silver New Play Prize), Gum, Leah’s Train (Weissberger Finalist), Going Gone (N.E.A. New Play Grant); Anatomy 1968; Girl Under Grain (Best Drama in NY Fringe); ALICE: Tales of a Curious Girl (Music by Gina Leishman, AT&T Onstage Award); Troy Women; Donna Wants; Sea Change, a musical with AnnMarie Milazzo, and MotherBone, an opera with Graham Reynolds.  Her plays have been performed in New York at the Women’s Project, NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company), P73, the NY Fringe, and Summer Play Festival, and at regional theaters including Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, the Magic Theater, Dallas Theater Center, and elsewhere.  She has received new play commissions from ACT in San Francisco, McCarter Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, California Shakespeare Festival, and others.  Her work is published by Theater Communications Group, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, Backstage Books, and NoPassport Press.  An alumna of New Dramatists and Yale (B.A., M.F.A.), Karen’s work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, the N.E.A., the Helen Merrill Foundation, a Daryl Roth "Creative Spirit" Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship to Jerusalem, and Core Membership at the Playwrights Center.  She has taught playwriting in a wide range of settings including the Yale School of Drama, and currently leads independent workshops in New York.  Girl Under Grain is forthcoming from NoPassport Press.
 

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