Ken Urban

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Ken Urban is a playwright and director. He was born in New Jersey in 1974. He now divides his time between Cambridge, MA and New York City.

His plays have been produced and developed by Moving Arts, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Soho Rep, Rude Guerrilla, Target Margin, Annex Theatre, Luna Stage, kef productions, Son of Semele Ensemble, and The Production Company. His work has been published New York Theatre Review (Edited by Book Stowe, with an introduction by Aleks Sierz), and Plays and Playwrights 2002 (Edited by Martin Denton) as well as featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2001 (Edited by D.L. Lepidus for Smith & Kraus), The Best Women's Monologues of the Millennium (Ed. Joyce Henry for Applause Books), The Brooklyn Rail and The Brooklyn Review.

He is the Artistic Director of The Committee Theatre Company in New York. [1]

He teaches at Harvard University.

His articles about theatre have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including PAJ, Theater, Modern Drama, NTQ, Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Theatre (Eds. Mary Luckhurst and Nadine Holdsworth) and Cool Britannia: British Political Theatre in the 1990s (Eds. Graham Saunders and Rebecca D'Monte).

His new play The Private Lives of Eskimos opens in New York City at the Linhart Theater in September 2007.

He maintains a website with information on his theatre and music. [2]

[edit] Plays

  • I (HEART) KANT
  • Nibbler
  • Halo
  • The Absence of Weather (winner of the 2004 Moving Arts Premiere One Act Competition)
  • The Female Terrorist Project
  • 2 Husbands
  • Sense of an Ending
  • The Private Lives of Eskimos

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