CARSON KREITZER

Carson Kreitzer’s The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer won the Rosenthal New Play Prize, the American Theatre Critics’ Steinberg Citation, the Stavis Award, and is published in Smith and Kraus’ New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004. Self Defense or Death of Some Salesmen has been produced in Providence, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and is published by Playscripts and in Smith and Kraus’ Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002. Her play, The Slow Drag, a jazz cabaret about a woman who passed as a man to play the music she loved, enjoyed a three-month run at the Whitehall Theater in London’s West End in 1997/98, following a run in London’s Fringe and an original Off-Broadway production at The American Place Theatre in 1996. Other work includes Valerie Shoots Andy, Heroin/E (Keep Us Quiet), Freakshow, Dead Wait and Take My Breath Away, featured in BAM’s 1997 Next Wave Festival. Ms. Kreitzer holds a degree in Theater and Literature from Yale University, an M.F.A. in Writing from the Michener Center, U.T. Austin, and has received grants from NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA, TCG, and the Jerome and McKnight Foundations. She is an associated artist with Clubbed Thumb, and a member of the Workhaus Collective, The Playwrights’ Center and the Dramatists Guild.