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Recently NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at Woolly Mammoth where she wrote THE CURIOUS WALK OF THE SALAMANDER, Kirsten Greenidge's work includes THE LUCK OF THE IRISH, RUST (Magic 2007), PROCLIVITIES (Guthrie BFA Project), AT SUNDAY DINNER and THE INTERPRETATION OF BEING (Point of Revue at Mixed Blood), BOSSA NOVA, ON WONDER BREAD AND ORANGE JUICE, (McCarter Shorts), 103 WITHIN THE VEIL (CompanyOne, 2005 Independent Reviewers of New England Award for Best New Play) THE GIBSON GIRL (Moxie Theatre Company 2006 and CompanyOne Spring 2008); HINGES KEEP A CITY: NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES (Huntington Theatre Stages Collaboration with Christine Bennett and Bennett Dance Company, composer Hugh Hinton, and visual artist Chandra Dieppa-Ortiz); SANS-CULOTTES IN THE PROMISED LAND, (Humana Festival/Actor's Theatre of Louisville 2004)); FAST AND LOOSE: AN ETHICAL COLLABORATION (Humana, also 2004); FAMILIAR (Kennedy Center's Lorraine Hansberry Award); and DEVIL MUST BE DEEP (New Georges). Kirsten has enjoyed development experiences at The Magic, P.73, Madison Rep, Hourglass, Playwright's Horizons, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Sundance/Ucross, New Dramatists, A.S.K. and The O'Neill. She is currently working on a commission for the Kennedy Center/White House Historical Society about Mary Lincoln and her seamstress Lizzie Keckly, and describes her plays as worlds where class and race intersect to create a "hyper-realism: where sound, language, and image are all heightened and presented as elevated variations of how they may have originally appeared in real, non theatrical life..." Kirsten attended Wesleyan University and The Playwright's Workshop at the University of Iowa where she was a Barry Kemp fellow.
THE SILVER LINING
One-act Drama, 100 Minutes
3M, 4W
Flexible Set
Inspired by the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln and Lizzy Keckly, Mrs. Lincoln's freed black seamstress while living in the White House, this play written for young audiences is the story of both women's lives and the primary events that brought them together during a critical moment in our nation's history. The mania often associated with Mrs. Lincoln has been etched away to reveal a friendship that both women came to hold dear.
A commission by the White House Historical Society/Kennedy Center.
THE LUCK OF THE IRISH
Two-act Drama, 110 Minutes
3M, 4W
Flexible Set
When Hannah and her sister Nissa invite a long time friend of the family's to a memorial picnic for their grandmother, they learn that the deed to the house their family has called home for decades is being mysteriously "reclaimed." The news forces Hannah into a tailspin as she wrestles with her relationship with the town she's called home. Interlaced with Hannah's struggles are glimpses of the past when the deal that procured their home came to fruition.
Originally a commission by South Coast Repertory.
THE CURIOUS WALK OF THE SALAMANDER
Two-act Drama, 110 Minutes
2M, 4W
Flexible Set
Forced to go into therapy after a breakdown at college, Henry's refusal to talk about her family make her sessions with her therapist far less than productive. When her therapist refuses to treat her anymore, Henry embarks on a campaign to reverse her therapist's decision, and as she does, relives the circumstances of her once affluent family's demise.
Originally written for Woolly Mammoth as part of the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Theatre Residency.
PROCLIVITIES
One Act
4M, 2W
Flexible Set
A couple's night of entertaining deteriorates as their guest repeatedly tries to leave and the day's previous encounters rise up to question their ways of life.
Commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre's BFA Acting Program. Presented at the Theatre Garage by the Guthrie Theatre.
103 WITHIN THE VEIL
Two-act Drama with Comedic Elements, 2 Hours
3M, 5W
Flexible Set
When three kids come across a box of old photographs in a creepy abandoned basement, the world of turn-of-the-century black Boston is resurrected...at the same time Virg, a disgruntled fast food worker, preaches to the not easily converted.
Originally commissioned by CompanyOne. Produced by CompanyOne.
SANS-CULOTTES IN THE PROMISED LAND
Full Length Drama with Comedic Elements, 100 Minutes
1M, 5W
Flexible Set
Lena's days as Greta's new nanny are numbered: her mishaps with the washing machine have mangled all of her young charge's clothes, the housekeeper is hoping to get her fired, the family she works for is suffering identity crises unique to black urban professionals, and, oh yes, a forest has begun to climb its way through the floorboards of the house. This is a play of velocity and image that rumbles to a chilling end.
Originally commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theatre. Premiered at Humana Festival 2004; produced at North Carolina Actor's Studio Theatre. Developed at Madison Repertory Theatre's Fall Festival of the Future, Playtime Retreat at New Dramatists, and Sundance Theatre Retreat at Ucross. Read at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
RUST
Two-act Drama with Comedic Elements, 2 Hours
5M, 3W
Flexible Set
Riddled with self-doubt, NFL star Randall Mifflin has barricaded himself inside his den, where he plays video games around the clock, defends himself against a team of slick and shiny sportscasters eager to dissect his celebrity, and, at doctor's orders, busies himself with a project: collecting black memorabilia. Life could return to normal if it weren't for Randall's new hobby. Soon, objects meant to be forgotten are roaming the streets and Randall is assaulted by thoughts he would prefer to ignore.
Produced at the Magic Theatre. Readings: Kitchen Dog Theatre; National New Play Network; New Voices West; Cherry Lane; Playwrights Horizons; Hourglass New Works Series. Developed at the Magic; Sundance Retreat at Ucross; Hourglass Retreat at Choate-Rosemary Hall.
THE GIBSON GIRL
Two-act Drama with Comedic Elements, 2 Hours
3M, 6W
Flexible Set
From the recesses of the girls bathroom comes a voice: utterly unruly and viciously vivacious. Its owner is twelve-year-old Valerie, whose life would be a thousand times more endurable if her twin sister would quit her daughter-knows-best act and her mother would abandon her peculiar rituals that she hopes will lure the girls' long absent father home with syrup tapped from trees in the family's front yard. But the forces that stifle Valerie's spirit are facing extinction and strange alliances threaten to unearth a deep secret that, if exposed, will reverse the girls' fortunes forever.
Premiered at Moxie Theatre Company. Developed at Bay Area Playwright's Festival; Mark Taper Forum's New Work Series; A.S.K. New Works Series. Read at Florida Repertory Theatre.
YES, PLEASE, AND THANK YOU
Two-act Drama, 2 Hours 10 Minutes
6W
Flexible Set
College classmates Diane and Grace cordially sip cocktails in Diane's living room. Although the din of gin and tonic rises steadily throughout their reunion it is unable to drown the racket of Diane's deepest fears for her teenage daughter whom she purposefully leaves at gymnastics practice each evening.
Recipient of the P.73 Residency. Developed at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.
FAMILIAR
Full-length Comedy with Dramatic Elements
2M, 6W
Flexible Set
Life could be simpler for Jill Frisby. With brother Archibald terrified
to leave their apartment and mother Maya steadfast in her desire to sit
in a hole on the beach to be closer to her dead husband, Jill is forced
into running the family's clam shack single-handedly. That is, until she
hires Lane against her better judgment. Soon Jill's coarse spiritual
fabric is stretched to its limit by Lane's eternal and eclectic
optimism. At first glance quirky, at times brimming with hilarity, the
inner core of this piece is hauntingly tender.
Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Lorraine Hansberry Award.