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KIA CORTHRON was born in Cumberland, Maryland, and lives in Harlem, New York City. Her plays include: Light Raise The roof; Breath, Boom; Force Continuum; Splash Hatch On The E Going Down; Digging Eleven; Seeking The Genesis; Life By Asphyxiation; and Come Down Burning. She is the recipient of the Mark Taper Forum's Fadiman Award, a National Endowment for the Arts/TCG residency, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays grant, the Callaway Award, the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, a Van Lier Fellowship, Delaware Theatre Company's Connections Contest Award, and the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award through New Dramatists. She has developed work through the National Playwrights Conference, Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater Projects, A Contemporary Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Crossroads Theatre Company's Genesis Festival, The Public Theater's New Work Now! Festival, the Shenandoah International Playwrights Retreat, Voice and Vision, Hedgebrook writer's retreat, the Circle Rep Lab and elsewhere. Kia is currently writing a play commissioned for Playwrights Horizon, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Guthrie Theater.
Bio as of December, 2006.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
The Playwright - December, 2006 - Watch now.
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