UNSCRIPTED: A Playwright’s Discussion
Featuring Award Winning Playwright Tim J. Lord & Broadway Playwright Carson Kreitzer
Moderated by Director of Theatre at ICC, Paul Molnar
The William Inge Theatre, Saturday, April 19
(1057 West College Ave. Independence KS)
Independence Community College, the Independence Chamber of Commerce, and the William Inge Festival Foundation are excited to bring Carson Kreitzer and Tim J. Lord here to Independence as part of our 42nd celebration of playwrights. The format will be a moderated discussion about where theatre is, and where it is going. We will hear from Tim and Carson about their journey to where they are now, and what motivates them as they move forward. We hope to open it up for some questions and answers so don’t miss your opportunity to hear about what it takes to make theatre happen right now in 2025. “Unscripted: A Playwright’s Discuss” will take place at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, at the William Inge Theatre at Independence Community College. Admission is free. For more on the 42nd William Inge Theatre Festival—the Official Theatre Festival of Kansas—visit www.ingecenter.org.
More about the playwrights:
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 oCenter andtists 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.
Tim J. Lord is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced and developed at theaters across the United States. As a member of the disability community, he strives to tell stories of communities who are overlooked on our stages, writing plays which are epic in scope yet intimate in scale, blurring the lines between the fantastic and the everyday. These include We Declare You a Terrorist at Round House Theatre, which will be published by Dramatic Publishing later this year; and Through the Sunken Lands, a new, original musical created with composer Avi Amon, which premiered at the Kennedy Center last year. Other producing and developing partners include The Public Theater; Actors Theatre of Louisville; The Lark (RIP); New Harmony Project; Phamaly Theater; Pillsbury House + Theater; The 52nd St. Project and The Working Theater, among others. Tim was the inaugural recipient of the Apothetae-Lark Fellowship for a playwright with a disability; a 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; and a 2017 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. He is a past writer-in-residence at the William Inge Theater Festival and was the Reg E. Cathey Writer-in-Residence at the Orchard Project. He studied with Paula Vogel and is a graduate of the playwriting program at the University of California, San Diego. Tim is married to the director and Producing Artistic Director of The Playwrights’ Center, Nicole A. Watson.