KIRSTEN GREENIDGE

 Kirsten Greenidge was recently a NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at Woolly Mammoth, where she wrote The Curious Walk of the Salamander. Additional 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); 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 a Huntington Theatre Playwrighting Fellow and is working on commissions for Boston Theatre Works, Clubbed Thumb, and the Kennedy Center/White House Historical Society. Kirsten attended Wesleyan University and The Playwright’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, and is a member of Rhombus and New Dramatists.