BIO
Adam Kraar’s work includes a quartet of plays about American families living in Asia, and a play inspired by the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project of the Civil Rights Movement. His plays have been produced and developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Primary Stages, Public Theatre, Theatreworks U.S.A., Cherry Lane, Urban Stages, LaMama, Geva, Performance Network, Alliance Repertory and many others. Fellowships from: Manhattan Theatre Club, Millay Colony, New River Dramatists and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His plays are published by: Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Applause Books (including four BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS anthologies).
Recent work includes: EMPIRE OF THE TREES (Wizard Oil Productions at Abingdon Theatre); NEW WORLD RHAPSODY (workshopped at N.Y. Stage & Film; premiered at Bloomington Playwrights Project); THE SPIRIT HOUSE (Performance Network); THE ABANDONED EL (Illinois Theatre Center); FREEDOM HIGH (Queens Theatre in the Park) and WILD TERRAIN (EST Marathon of One-Act Plays).
He was a member of the Playwrights’ Workshop at the Lark Play Development Center, was twice a resident playwright at the Inge Center for the Arts, and is a Core Member of The Playwrights Center.
Adam grew up in India, Thailand, Singapore and the U.S. He earned an M.F.A. at Columbia University and teaches playwriting at Adelphi University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Karen.
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