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About Kira
Kira Obolensky’s plays have been produced Off Broadway, in Los Angeles, in Prague and Terezin, and in such locations as homeless shelters, prisons, tribal colleges, and chemical dependency centers. She has received awards and fellowships for her work, including the Kesselring Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and most recently a Mellon Foundation National Playwright Fellowship, which put her in residence with the award-winning theater Ten Thousand Things. Her novella “The Anarchists Float to St. Louis” won Quarterly West’s Novella prize, and her short stories have most recently appeared in The Brooklyn Review. She attended Juilliard’s Playwriting Program and Williams College and is a core writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. New work includes Soul Machine (formerly Four Measures), (Rhinebeck Musical Theater Festival), There Once Was a Happy Consortium (2021, Wanderlust Theater), and breakfastlunchdinner (The Echo Theater, LA, developmental reading 2021).
