Playwright Laureate of Boston, Kirsten's plays include COMMONGROUND: REVISITED, OUR DAUGHTERS, LIKE PILLARS, LITTLE ROW BOAT; OR, CONJECTURE, THE GREATER GOOD, ZENITH, BALTIMORE, MILK LIKE SUGAR, THE LUCK OF THE IRISH, SANS-CULOTTES IN THE PROMISED LAND, and BOSSA NOVA. Her work most of explores race, gender, class, and how these intersect in twentieth and twenty first century American society. Kirsten has enjoyed development experiences at the Family Residency at Space at Ryder Farm, Huntington Summer Playwrights Workshop, the O'Neill, Bay Area Playwrights, among others. Her work has been produced at MetroStage Company, La Jolla Playhouse, the Kennedy Center, LTC3 (Lincoln Center 3), Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington Theatre Company, Company One Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Humana Festival/Actor's Theatre Of Louisville, and Yale Repertory Theatre. She is the proud recipient of an Obie Award (The Luck of the Irish), San Diego Critics Award, two Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, two Edgerton Awards, a former National Endowment for the Arts Residency Grant to work with Woolly Mammoth Theatre, a Lucille Lortel nomination recipient, and a past KC/ACTF Kennedy Center Lorraine Hansberry Award winner. Kirsten is currently working on a micro-commission of her play MATILDE: A FABLE, as well as MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT (Company One Theatre Spring 2024), ONE PENNY DOWN, commissioned by Writer's Theatre of Chicago, and a musical adaptation of journalist Lauren Sandler's THIS IS ALL I GOT. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston University where she overseas the School of Theatre's Playwrighting track of study for undergraduates, is Chair of Theatre Arts, co-Chair of Performance, and School of Theatre Director-Elect. She is also a very proud recipient of a 2023 Lily Award.