Plays
About
Kirsten Greenidge is a playwright from Boston, Massachusetts. Growing up, she regularly wrote and produced plays with the other kids in her neighborhood, as well as her sisters and began taking theatre classes at Wheelock Family theatre while still in high school. She attended Wesleyan University as a United States History Major, where she studied playwrighting with Darrah Cloud, and won her first playwrighting award. Soon after, Kirsten moved on to the Playwright’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she studied with Naomi Iizuka, Erik Ehn, Sydne Mahone, among others.
Kirsten is the recipient of a Village Voice Obie Award for her play MILK LIKE SUGAR, which was commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse and Theatre Masters, and co-produced by La Jolla Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, and WP Theatre. MILK LIKE SUGAR has also received a Lucille Lortel nomination, an AUDELCO nomination, and an Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Award. Other plays include THE LUCK OF THE IRISH, originally produced by the Huntington Theatre Company; BALTIMORE, which is the product of a Big 10 Consortium Commission, a program created to address the lack of roles for female BFA candidates; ZENITH, most recently produced by San Francisco Playhouse’s Sandbox Series; BUD NOT BUDDY with music by Terence Blanchard (Kennedy Center; Metro Stage); BOSSA NOVA (Yale Rep); SPLENDOR (Company One Theatre Company); and SANS-CULOTTES IN THE PROMISED LAND (Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville).