Carson Kreitzer Awarded Lark Playwriting Fellowship

Carson Kreitzer has been awarded the Lark Play Development Center’s first “Playwrights of New York” (PONY) playwriting fellowship, with an estimated cash value of $80,000.

The fellowship is designed to provide an emerging playwright a year of free housing in NYC, a monthly living expense, and artistic support at the Lark, including mentoring with the playwrights Tina Howe and the Tony Award-winner Arthur Kopit.

Kreitzer’s plays include Freakshow, Dead Wait, Take My Breath Away, The Slow Drag, and The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Kreitzer plans to use the year-long fellowship to write her newest play, Enchantment about the crisscrossing lives of the Freudian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Bruno Bettelheim and Temple Grandin, a high functioning autistic woman known for designs of more humane slaughterhouses. She also expects to complete her play Be Here Now, an adaptation of The Three Sisters, as well as a work-in-progress about a pair of Chicago socialites and their obsession with dollhouses.

The Lark Play Development Center has nurtured numerous playwrights of all levels over the years. Two Lark-generated plays will receive major productions in New York this season: Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius, which will play Broadway’s Biltmore and David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face, to be presented at The Public Theatre.

For more information, visit www.larktheatre.org.