Stephen Karam

Stephen Karam
Born	United States
Language	English
Genre	Theatre, screenwriting

Stephen Karam is an American playwright and screenwriter. His plays Sons of the Prophet, a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American family, and The Humans were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012 and 2016, respectively. The Humans won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.

Karam grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania in a Lebanese-American family of the Maronite faith. He graduated in 2002 from Brown University, then apprenticed at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, where he met Arian Moayed (who is appearing in The Humans) and P. J. Paparelli, who collaborated with him on columbinus and directed The Humans in Chicago. Karam teaches at The New School. His plays have appeared both Off-Broadway and on Broadway.

Karam was a three-time winner in The Blank Theatre's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival in 1997, 1998 and 1999. His first play A Work of Art ('97) starred Robert Pine and Janet Carroll, Agnes ('98) starred Allison Hannigan in her stage debut, and Lies in the Eye of the Beholder ('99) starred Richard Ruccollo.

His musical Emma won the Kennedy Center American College Theater (KCACTF) Musical Theatre Award in 2001.

The Roundabout Theatre Company produced Speech & Debate in October 2007 at The Black Box, after a workshop at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island in 2006. This play was the first at Roundabout Underground, their "initiative to introduce and cultivate artists."

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