ABOUT
CARSON KREITZER is a playwright, lyricist, librettist and a Guggenheim, MacDowell, and McKnight Fellow, as well as a Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient. LEMPICKA (Book, Lyrics, and Original Concept by Carson Kreitzer, Book and Music by Matt Gould) inspired by the life and art of Tamara de Lempicka, opens on Broadway on April 14th, 2024, directed by Rachel Chavkin.
LEMPICKA premiered at the Williamstown Theater Festival, where it was a New York Times Critic’s Pick, and had its West Coast premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in 2022. Carson’s other plays include The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Rosenthal New Play Prize, Steinberg New Play Citation, and Stavis Award), The Slow Drag (Off-Broadway, West End), Behind the Eye (Cincinnati Playhouse), Flesh and the Desert (Workhaus Collective), and Lasso of Truth (NNPN Rolling World Premiere – Marin Theatre Company, Synchronicity, Unicorn Theatre). Upcoming projects include: the climate-crisis plays TIMEBOMB, (developed with A.R.T., Kitchen Theatre Company and The Playwrights’ Center), and Svalbard, inspired by her time on a ship in the Arctic, exploring the Svalbard Archipelago as part of The Arctic Circle Artist and Scientist Residency Program, as well as Capital Crime!, a play with songs set in Gilded Age New York.
She is an Affiliated Writer with The Playwrights’ Center, an alumna of New Dramatists, and was the first Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark. She has received support from the NEA, TCG, and the Jerome Foundation. Her plays The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer and SELF DEFENSE, or death of some salesmen are published with Smith and Kraus, Dramatic Publishing and Playscripts and the plays SELF DEFENSE, Oppenheimer, 1:23, and Slither are available from NoPassport Press. She received her B.A. from Yale University, and MFA from Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin.