Playwrights Horizons: The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin. Her other musicals include Miracle Brothers (Vineyard Theatre), Fly (with Rajiv Joseph and Bill Sherman), and Funked Up Fairy Tales. For her work she has received Obie, Kleban, Larson, Richard Rodgers, Audelco, and Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla awards, as well as Lortel and Drama Desk nominations. She recently collaborated with Charlayne Woodard on the musical Grace for Inner Voices: Solo Musicals. Kirsten has written for Disney Theatricals, the American Songbook series at Lincoln Center, the New Electric Company, Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum and City Center Encores! She is a professor in NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, a member of both the Dramatists Guild Council and the Dramatists Guild Fund, and is proud to be a mentor in Theatre Development Fund’s Open Doors program.

(as of 4/4/17)

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has directed Bubbly through its various stages at Dixon Place, the O'Neill Festival, MTC and its workshop last year here at Playwrights. He spent 12 years as Co-Artistic Director of the Family Life Theatre and Consulting Director of NiteStar, both interactive, socio-dramatic theater companies. For TV, he most recently collaborated on the writing and direction of the 1999 Emmy-award winning "Talking Back" for ABC-TV, as well as directing segments of the ABC-TV live national special, "Peter Jennings...Answering Children's Questions," the Emmy nominated "Love, Peace, Predjudice, Hate," for PBS, the ABC Afterschool Special "Makin' It" and "Justice Factory" for Court TV.