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Kara Manning
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Agent:
Gemma Hirst
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Kara Manning's plays, including 'Mind The Gap', 'Killing Swans', 'Afterdark' and 'Sleeping Rough', have been performed or developed via the Royal Court Theatre, the O'Neill Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theatre, NYTW, LAByrinth Theatre, The Magic Theatre, the Lark Play Development Centre, Studio Dante, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (The 24 Hour Plays), Here (Raw Impressions), The Directors Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Makor, Expanded Arts, Theatre for the New City and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. She is the 2007 recipient of the Princess Grace Award in playwriting. Kara is the literary manager of the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, a freelance music and arts journalist and is a recipient of the 2000-2001 Jerome Foundation Affiliated Writers Program grant in association with American Theatre magazine. She is a finalist for the 2007 Heideman Award, finalist for the 2007 P73 fellowship, semifinalist for the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, nominee for the 2007-08 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, finalist for the 2006 Playpenn conference, and a 2005 Barry Stavis award finalist. Member of the MCC Theatre Playwrights Coalition and a former resident playwright at the Royal Court's International Residency. Member of the Dramatist's Guild. She served as an assistant to Anne Bograt and the SITI Company, and is currently the moderator for MCC Theatre's Artist Talkback Series (on and off Broadway). Kara is former MTV News reporter and staff writer for 'Rolling Stone' magazine and she wrote liner notes for the Grammy-nominated Rhino box set " Respect: A Century of Women in Music". She is a talent booker/producer for Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight" on WFUV and is a graduate of Columbia University's M.F.A program in playwriting. |