Sibyl Kempson

Sibyl Kempson (born 1973) is an American playwright and performer, who received the 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-career.^[1]

Kempson was raised in Pequannock Township, New Jersey.^[2]

Academics and fellowships

She received her B.F.A. in 1995 from Bennington College.
She received her M.F.A. in 2007 from Brooklyn College.
She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow.^[3]
She has taught at Brooklyn College, The New School, and Sarah Lawrence College.
She is a 2014 USA Rockefeller Fellow.

Collaborators

New York City Players, Elevator Repair Service, Big Dance Theater,^[4] Advanced Beginner Group, Mike Iveson, Rude Mechanicals (theater company), Salvage Vanguard, Physical Plant, Rubber Rep.

She is a member of New Dramatists, class of 2017.^[5]

Plays

The Wytche of Problymm Plantation
Bad Girls, Good Writers
The Secret Death of Puppets (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or) Puppets Die In Secret^[6]
Ich, Kürbisgeist^[6]
Potatoes of August^[7]
Crime or Emergency^[8]
Restless Eye^[9]
So Much To Go Crazy
River of Gruel, Pile of Pigs: The Requisite Gesture(s) of Narrow Approach

References

^ "2018 PEN America Lifetime and Career Achievement Honorees". PEN America. 6 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ Rubsam, Robb. "Beckoning Bigfoot: Mount Tremper Arts premieres Sasquatch Rituals", Hudson Valley One, October 12, 2017. Accessed August 18, 2019. "When Sibyl Kempson begins her Performance Writing classes at Sarah Lawrence University, she asks her students to dig back into their lives and find the experiences from their childhood that brought them to that class with her on that day. But she only finally discovered her own. When the playwright was growing up in suburban Pequannock, New Jersey, she had a neighbor named Mr. Lonsky."
^ "Index of Fellows on Portable MacDowell | The MacDowell Colony". www.macdowellcolony.org. Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
^ Big Dance Theater website
^ "Sibyl Kempson". New Dramatists. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
^ ^a ^b "Sibyl Kempson: Ich, KürbisGeist Secret Death of Puppets - 53rd State Press". www.53rdstatepress.org. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
^ "Potatoes of August". New Dramatists. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
^ available at Soho Rep Bookstore
^ Published by PAJ

External links

[1] "2018 PEN America Lifetime and Career Achievement Honorees". PEN America. 6 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.

[2] Rubsam, Robb. "Beckoning Bigfoot: Mount Tremper Arts premieres Sasquatch Rituals", Hudson Valley One, October 12, 2017. Accessed August 18, 2019. "When Sibyl Kempson begins her Performance Writing classes at Sarah Lawrence University, she asks her students to dig back into their lives and find the experiences from their childhood that brought them to that class with her on that day. But she only finally discovered her own. When the playwright was growing up in suburban Pequannock, New Jersey, she had a neighbor named Mr. Lonsky."

[3] "Index of Fellows on Portable MacDowell | The MacDowell Colony". www.macdowellcolony.org. Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2018-03-21.

[4] Big Dance Theater website

[5] "Sibyl Kempson". New Dramatists. Retrieved 2018-03-21.

[:0-6] "Sibyl Kempson: Ich, KürbisGeist Secret Death of Puppets - 53rd State Press". www.53rdstatepress.org. Retrieved 2018-03-21.

[7] "Potatoes of August". New Dramatists. Retrieved 2018-03-21.

[8] vailable at Soho Rep Bookstore

[9] Published by PAJ

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