Carson Kreitzer is a playwright, lyricist, and librettist. Her musical Lempicka, co-written with Matt Gould and directed by Rachel Chavkin, ran at the Longacre Theater on Broadway last spring. The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Lempicka is available on CD, and on all streaming platforms. Carson’s lifelong mission to center the stories of “troublesome women” feels particularly important in this moment, as the stories of women and minorities are being intentionally scrubbed from federal websites. For the past decade her work has been increasingly involved with the climate crisis, including her plays green and Timebomb, as well as works-in-process Svalbard and The Trash Project, inspired by her time sailing with a group of artists in the Arctic Circle and Greenland.
Her plays include The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Rosenthal New Play Prize, Stavis Award), The Slow Drag (New York and London), Behind the Eye (Cincinnati Playhouse), Flesh and the Desert (Workhaus Collective), and Lasso of Truth (NNPN Rolling World Premiere). She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an alumna of New Dramatists, an Affiliated Writer with The Playwrights’ Center, and was the first Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark. A Guggenheim and MacDowell fellow, she has also received support from the NEA, TCG, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, and the Jonathan Larson Award. Her collection Self Defense and other plays is available from No Passport Press.