Ken’s play, HALFTIME WITH DON, recently received a NNPN Rolling World Premiere with NJ Rep, Phoenix Theatre, and B Street Theatre. Previous productions include, among others, THE CATCH (The Denver Center Theatre Company), FIRE IN THE GARDEN (Indiana Repertory Theatre), THE AS IF BODY LOOP (Humana Festival), ARRANGEMENTS (Atlantic Theatre Company). His devised work includes, MEMORABILIA (Alliance Theatre), HOMINID (Out of Hand Theatre/Theatre Emory/Oerol Festival Netherlands), and STADIUM 360 (Out of Hand Theatre). Plays-in-progress include, SEAL BOY (Winner of BETC's 2020 Generations Contest-production postponed to 21-22, NNPN Showcase finalist, Keen Company Playwrights Lab, The Lark’s Meeting of the Minds, American Academy of Dramatic Arts), SPIN MOVES (Victory Gardens, New Harmony Project, Finalist Award for Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition).
National Awards include The L. Arnold Weissberger Award for Playwriting for ARRANGEMENTS, TCG Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award for THE CATCH, the Fratti/Newman Political Play Contest Award for FIRE IN THE GARDEN, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's Generations Contest for SEAL BOY, and South Coast Repertory’s Elizabeth George Commission for an Outstanding Emerging Playwright.
Organizations who have commissioned Ken’s work include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Arena Stage, the Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre Emory, Out of Hand Theatre, and South Coast Repertory Theatre.
Ken’s has been a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis, a member of Meeting of the Minds at the Lark Play Development Company, and part of the Writers’ Lab at Keen Company. He was a former Writer-in-Residence for Out of Hand Theatre Company and was a board member for The New Harmony Project for six years.
Ken’s plays have been published by Samuel French, Playscripts, Smith and Kraus, and Blackbird.
Ken received his MFA from University of California, San Diego and has taught at UCSD, Emory University, Indiana University (head of MFA in Playwriting) and, currently, at Stony Brook University.