Jack Karp
Playwright

Playwright

ResumeĀ 

           Play Production/Reading History


Mamet's Macbeth
    
  World Premier, NyLon Fusion Collective, New York -   
     November 2012

               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


Best Play, Divide & Conquer Festival, MadLab Theatre, 
    Columbus, OH December 2011

Second Place, Independent Jury Playwrighting Award,   
    Eclectic Company Theatre's Hurricane Season 
    Festival, Los Angeles - July 2011
Theatre SLAM Champion, The Tank, New York – March 2009

Finalist, Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play   
    Festival, New York – July 2008

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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