Karen Malpede is author and director of 20 plays and co-founder with George Bartenieff of Theater Three Collaborative. Other Than We follows Extreme Whether (La MaMa, New York, 2018; ArtCop21, Paris, 2015; Theater for the New City, New York, 2014); the shorts Dinner During Yemen (Signature, New York, 2018), Hermes in the Anthropocene: A Dogologue (University of Iowa, Iowa City, 2019; Reed College, Portland, 2015); the revival of her 1995 The Beekeeper’s Daughter (Theater for the New City, New York, 2016), Another Life (RADA, London and Theater for the New City, New York, 2013; Irondale, Brooklyn, 2012; Gerald W. Lynch Theater, New York, 2011), Prophecy (English Theatre Berlin, 2007 (reading); New End Theatre, London, 2008; 4th St. Theater, New York, 2010), the docudrama Iraq: Speaking of War (Culture Project, New York, 2007; CUNY Grad Center, New York, 2006). Her most recent play, Blue Valiant, written for Kathleen Chalfant, had its debut in 2021. She is author of the anthology Plays in Time: The Beekeeper’s Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether, lead editor of Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays, and author of an anthology of early plays, A Monster Has Stolen the Sun and Other Plays. Her short plays, fiction, and essays on ecofeminism, climate crisis, a new green Federal Theater, bearing witness, the Iraq war, the U.S. torture program, etc., are published in The Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Dark Matter, Howlround, Transformations, Torture Magazine, New Theater Quarterly, TDR, New York Times, and elsewhere. She was an adjunct associate professor on the Environmental Justice and Theater faculties at John Jay College, City University of New York; McKnight National Playwrights’ Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts; Vogelstein fellow; and a member of PEN, Dramatists Guild, ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology) and of Brooklyn for Peace.
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