Kia Corthron

Kia Corthron’s plays have premiered in New York, London, and across the U.S. Awards for her body of work include the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, Windham Campbell Prize, USArtists Jane Addams Fellowship, McKnight National Residency, 2020 Dramatist Guild Flora Roberts Award. Arena Stage will produce her commissioned Tempestuous Elements in its 2021-22 season. Her novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and the winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and her second novel Moon and the Mars will be published August 2021. Dramatists Guild Council, New Dramatists alumnus.

Role with GPTC: Responder, Instructor