Tag: kristen kosmas
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The Ten Year Prelude
A forward-looking backward glance at a decade of PRELUDE by Jeffrey M. Jones
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A Very Female Festival
Can all the ladies in the house say Hell Yes?! Female performance makers – how excited are you about the January festival offerings? This feels like our year! What a plethora of exciting writers, directors, choreographers showing their stuff.. may I call you all lady auteurs? Ladi-ators? I’ve rarely anticipated a show as much as I…
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The Replacements: Talking to Kristen Kosmas
Kristen Kosmas talks about “There There” at the Chocolate Factory/COIL Festival
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There, There at The Chocolate Factory is Totally Freaking Awesome.
One day everyone will realize that Kristen Kosmas is one of the most singularly gifted, unique and important “playwrights” of her generation. And I am using the word “playwright” because it is, at the moment, the most familiar label for people who write words that are performed on a stage. But it is wholly insufficient to describe…
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You, My Mother at LaMama
Two-Headed Calf’s new opera project, You, My Mother, poignantly explores the relationship between children (daughters) and their mothers.
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“You, My Mother” – New Opera from Two-Headed Calf at LaMama
With “You, My Mother” Two-Headed Calf brings together some amazing artists to create contemporary opera. One creative team is composer Brendan Connelly and playwright Karinne Keithley Syers, the other is Obie Award-winning composer Rick Burkhardt with Obie-winning playwright Kristen Kosmas, directed by Brooke O’Harra, with music performed by Yarn/Wire + Strings. This is going to…
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Five Questions for Kristen Kosmas
Name: Kristen Kosmas Title/Occupation: Playwright, Performer Organization/Company: URL: 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in a very small town in Florida called New Smyrna Beach in a very unusual house that was made of cinderblock with the ocean in front of it…