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Sibyl Kempson

USA Rockefeller Fellow (New York, NY)

Theater

Sibyl Kempson’s plays have been presented in NYC at New York Live Arts, Mass Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory, Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Performance Space 122, Little Theater, Brick Theater, the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX, the Great Plains Theater Conference in Omaha, the Walker Arts Center and Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis, Theater Bonn in Germany, and by EMP Collective in Baltimore. Collaborators include Elevator Repair Service (FONDLY, COLLETTE RICHLAND), Big Dance Theater (ICH, KÜRBISGEIST), David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group (RESTLESS EYE and the upcoming I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING BETTER), Rude Mechs & Salvage Vanguard Theater (FROM THE PIG PILE: THE REQUISITE GESTURE(S) OF NARROW APPROACH), Abrons Arts Center (LET US NOW PRAISE SUSAN SONTAG), and New York Theatre Workshop with Sarah Benson (KYCKLING AND SCREAMING). She is recipient of the McKnight National Residency and Commission, the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Commission, a New Dramatists/Full Stage USA commission, and a National Presenters Network Creation Fund Award; her work is and was supported by the Jerome and Greenwall Foundations; she is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a member of New Dramatists, an NYTW Usual Suspect, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, where she studied under the instigation of Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. She has taught playwriting as an adjunct lecturer and guest artist at Brooklyn College, the Eugene Lang College at the New School, Bloomfield College, Duke University, and now Sarah Lawrence College. Her plays are published by 53rd State Press, PAJ, and PLAY: A Journal of Plays.