Kirsten Greenidge

Recently a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, Kirsten Greenidge’s recent work includes Milk Like Sugar (La Jolla Playhouse/Playwrights Horizons/Women's Project), The Luck of the Irish (Huntington Theatre Company 2012), and Bossa Nova (Yale Repertory Theatre). Kirsten’s work combines elements of magical realism with a pronounced use of language: the result is a body of plays that possesses a heightened sense of realism while exploring how race, class, and culture intersect in these United States of America. She was an NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and is also playwright-in-residence at Company One, which has produced numerous plays by Kirsten, including Thanksgiving, 103 Within the Veil, A More Perfect Union, and The Gibson Girl, and frequent ten-minute plays in Boston’s Ten-Minute Play Marathon. Kirsten has enjoyed experiences at Sundance (Utah and Ucross), Magic Theatre, National New Play Network, Cardinal Stage, South Coast Repertory, Pacific Playwrights Festival, Madison Rep, Page 73 Productions, Hourglass Group, Bay Area Playwrights, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, Mark Taper Forum, A.S.K., The O’Neill, The Guthrie, Mixed Blood, McCarter Shorts, Humana Festival, Moxie, and New Georges. In 2008, Kirsten was awarded Sundance’s Time Warner Award for Bossa Nova. Additional work includes The Curious Walk of the Salamander, and Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land. Kirsten is currently working on commissions from Yale Rep and Denver Center Theatre Company. She attended Wesleyan University and The Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, and is a member of Rhombus and a current resident at New Dramatists.