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.

Kempson was raised in Pequannock Township, New Jersey.

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. 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, 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.

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

Ich, Kürbisgeist

Potatoes of August

Crime or Emergency

Restless Eye

So Much To Go Crazy

River of Gruel, Pile of Pigs: The Requisite Gesture(s) of Narrow Approach

References

External links

"Baby, They Were Born To Run (Faster!)", NYTimes

"It Could Be a Garden Party, Even the Final One", NYTimes

"What's Afoot in a Garbled Pumpkin Patch", NYTimes

New York City Players official website, Sibyl Kempson bio

Elevator Repair Service Theater official website

Soho Rep Bookshop

53rd State Press official website

1973 births

21st-century American dramatists and playwrights

Bennington College alumni

Brooklyn College alumni

Living people

People from Pequannock Township, New Jersey