Kim Euell

Kim Euell is a playwright, dramaturg and theater educator. She has headed play development programs at four theaters including Center Theater Group's Mark Taper Forum and Hartford Stage Company. She has worked as a new play dramaturg at The Sundance Institute's Theater Lab and The Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference. She has taught playwriting at several American universities as well as in South Africa and Kenya. This Fall Kim returns to the University of Pennsylvania as a Visiting Professor. She recently edited Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy--Theater from the Hip-Hop Generation (with Robert Alexander) for TCG Publications. Kim is the author of several plays that humorously interrogate issues such as cultural assimilation and the politics of race and class identification.  Her play THE DIVA DAUGHTERS DUPREE, which was inspired by Chekhov's Three Sisters, was named Outstanding New Play of the Year by critics at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. Kim is currently collaborating with San Francisco's Zaccho Dance Theater on two upcoming productions.