Kirsten Childs
Kirsten Childs is the author of The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Playwrights Horizons) – Obie, Kleban, Audelco, Richard Rodgers and Gilman Gonzalez-Falla awards; Rockefeller and Jonathan Larson Grants; Lucille Lortel, three NAACP award nominations and three Drama Desk nominations. CD available through Ghostlight Records. Funked Up Fairy Tales (Barrington Stage Company, Sundance White Oak, Sundance Theater Playlist at Brooklyn Academy of Music), workshop at Manhattan Theatre Club, (John Rando, director). Princess and The Black-Eyed Pea, (bookwriter) – December 2008 Production at San Diego Repertory Theatre (Stafford Arima, director). Miracle Brothers (Vineyard Theatre) – NEA, Larson grants, Meet The Composer and Kitty Carlisle Hart Musical Theatre Award awards, Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at the Ucross Foundation.
American Songbook series at Lincoln Center. Songwriter for PBS’s new “Electric Company” series. House Of Flowers (adaptation) – City Center Encores! Wasted – George Street Playhouse. If You Give A Mouse A Cookie (Amazing Grace) – Theatreworks/USA. Composers’ evening at the Guggenheim Museum honoring poet Paul Muldoon, poet/NEA chairman/poet Dana Gioia. Music design for the play Doris to Darlene by Jordan Harrison (Playwrights Horizons, fall 2007).
Co-writer of songs for Dianne Reeves (with Grammy winner, Billy Childs). Working on original musicals with playwright Charles Randolph-Wright as well as novelist Walter Mosley. Dramatists Guild Council, Fund. Professor, Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, Tisch School Of The Arts, NYU.