Ken Urban

Ken Urban is a playwright, screenwriter and director. He was born in New Jersey in 1974. He currently lives in New York City. He occasionally teaches at Princeton University. He is a graduate of Bucknell University and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Rutgers University.

His plays have been produced and developed at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Summer Play Festival at The Public, Theatre503 (London)theatre503.com, Donmar Warehouse (London), Studio 42, Theatre @ Boston Court, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Irish Rep, Primary Stages, and The Huntington. His plays include Sense of an Ending, Nibbler, The Awake, The Happy Sad (made into a film based on his play), The Correspondent, and The Private Lives of Eskimos.

Urban was the Founding Artistic Director of The Committee, a New York-based theatre company that produced “catastrophic theatre" including the first workshop production of Sarah Kane's Cleansed.

In 2009, he won the 2008 L. Arnold Weisberger Award, given each year by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, for his play Sense of an Ending. He is a member of New Dramatists.

Urban maintains a website with information on his theatre and music.

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