
Steely Lies the Heart
In 2017, Kirsten Greenidge suggested that the playwrights’ responsibility in challenging times was to remain: present, agile and full of questions. What can her words tell us in these times?
Recent PEN/America Award winner and Obie recipient Kirsten Greenidge is the author of Baltimore, Milk Like Sugar, The Luck of the Irish, Splendor, and 103 Within The Veil, among other plays. Her work has appeared at New Repertory Theatre, The Huntington, LCT3, La Jolla Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, Company One Theatre, The Flea, P. 73, New Georges, and the Humana Festival of New Work. Kirsten is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the School of Theatre at Boston University, is a member of Boston’s Rhombus Playwrghting Group, and an alum of New Dramatists. She attended Wesleyan University as a United States History Major and the Playwright’s Workshop at the University of Iowa.
In 2017, Kirsten Greenidge suggested that the playwrights’ responsibility in challenging times was to remain: present, agile and full of questions. What can her words tell us in these times?