Kia Corthron

For her body of work for the stage, Kia Corthron has been awarded the Windham Campbell Prize, United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, Flora Roberts Award, Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, McKnight Fellowship, and others. Plays produced in New York by Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Stage and Film; regionally by the Goodman, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Minneapolis' Children's Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, Center Stage, and elsewhere; in London by the Royal Court Theatre and Donmar Warehouse. Her debut novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter won the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. TV: The Jury, The Wire. She serves on the Dramatists Guild Council, is a member of the Authors Guild, and is an alumnus of New Dramatists.