{"title":"Stephen Karam","role":"Playwright","image":"","lede":null,"content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><strong>STEPHEN KARAM (Playwright)<\/strong> is the author of Speech & Debate which was produced off-Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company as the inaugural production of Roundabout Underground. Following an extended run in New York, <em>Speech & Debate<\/em> has received over 100 productions across the U.S. and Canada. Other plays include <em>Sons of the Prophet<\/em> (co-world premiere by Huntington\/Roundabout Theater Companies), <em>columbinus<\/em> (New York Theatre Workshop), <em>Girl on Girl<\/em> (Brown\/Trinity Playwrights Rep), and <em>Emma<\/em> (a re-imagining of Jane Austen's novel), performed this spring by the Professional Performing Arts High School in NYC.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>His work is published by Dramatists Play Service and Dramatic Publishing Company and his freelance writing has appeared in The Advocate and McSweeneys.net. Current projects include the film version of <em>Speech & Debate<\/em> and <em>Dark Sisters<\/em>, an original chamber opera with composer Nico Muhly (a co-production of Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and Opera Company of Philadelphia). A MacDowell Colony Fellow, Stephen grew up in Scranton, PA and received his B.A. from Brown University.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","website":"","alt":""}