Jack Karp
Playwright

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Play Production/Reading History
Reading, American Conservatory Theatre, San
Francisco - January 2003
Magic Hour
World Premier, Lightyear Productions, New York -
September 2012
Reading, NyLon Fusion Collective, New York - July
2011
The Pursuit of Happy Endings
World Premier, NyLon Fusion Collective, New York -
July 2012
Miss Hopes (written collaboratively)
World Premier, NyLon Fusion Collective, New York -
May 2012
A Nod to Ira Glass Philip Glass Leonard Cohen Leonard Bernstein John Cage
NyLon Fusion Collective, New York - April 2012
Multiple Choice
NyLon Fusion Collective, New York - February 2012
Stratton Players, Fitchburg, MA - July 2011
The 2008 Long Island City One Act Play
Festival, New York – January 2008
World Premiere, Crosstown Playwrights, New
York – September 2007
Sleeping with Strangers
MadLab Theatre, Divide & Conquer Festival,
Columbus, OH – Nov.–Dec. 2011
World Premiere, Pittsburgh New Works Festival - September, 2011
Reading, NyLon Fusion Collective, New York – June
2010
You Are Here (Written collaboratively)
World Premier, NyLon Fusion Collective, New York -
November 2011
One Night Stand
Ticket 2 Eternity Productions, New York -
September 2011
World Premier, Queens Players, New York - July
2008
Sex and Money and Money and Sex
Ecclectic Theatre, Los Angeles - July 2011
Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play
Festival, New York – July 2008
Turtle Shell Productions, New York – July 2008
World Premiere, Ignited States/Crosstown
Playwrights, New York – March 2008
The End
In a New York Minute Play Festival, Spare Change
Theatre, New York – April 2010
World Premiere, Where Eagles Dare, New York –
February, 2009
Don't Write a Bad Play, or A Cautionary Tale About the Brutality of the War on Terror and the Futility of Using Violence to Stop Violence
International CringeFest, Producer’s Club, New
York – July 2010
World Premiere, Ignited States/Crosstown
Playwrights, New York – October 2009
Irreversible
Reading, The Tank, New York – June 2009
Reading, Crosstown Playwrights/2nd Stage
Theatre, New York – September 2008
The Silent Treatment
World Premiere, Flour City Theatre Company,
New York – February 2009
The Famous Elephant Play
The 2008 Long Island City One Act Play
Festival, New York – January 2008
World Premiere, City Theater Company,
Wilmington, DE – July 2005
Reading, The Marsh Theatre, San Francisco –
October 2005
Tell Me You Love Me
Workshop Production, Bitter Sauce Theatre, San
Francisco – November 2004
Reading, Off-Market Theater, San Francisco –
August 2004
Shacking Up
Reading, Iambes’ Bones Studio, San Francisco –
March 2001
Fire and Brimstone
Reading, The Experimental Theatre, Washington
DC – May 1997
Mourning Abraham
Reading, American University Theatre,
Washington, DC – December 1996
AWARDS
David Mamet Playwriting Contest Winner, American
Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco – January
2003
Best Play, 2008 Long Island City One Act Festival,
The Queens Players, New York
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, American University – May 1998
Bachelor of Arts in English and psychology, magna cum laude, Boston University – May 1995
*Member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.