a brief history

Kara is a writer, dramaturg, and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Their plays have been developed at The Brick, The Tank, NYC Fringe, Brooklyn Art Haus, Fresh Ink Theatre, Wunderbar, Williams/Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Yale University. Kara has served as a historical consultant for television projects in development with Jeff Augustin, Apple TV, Hulu, and Element Pictures. They have dramaturged new work at The Brick, Whitney Center for the Arts, Williams College, and Ohio State University. 

Recognitions include the Hutchinson Fellowship in Theatre, Queerly Award at NYC Fringe, Dunbar Writing Prize, Graver Prize in Theatre Criticism, and Bullock Poetry Prize. They have been a finalist for Spectrum Theater Ensemble’s New Play Festival, Central Square Theatre’s YU Playwriting Fellowship, Company One's Volt Lab, First Kiss Theater’s Summer Residency, and SheNYC. 

Kara holds a B.A. in History and Theatre from Williams College, where she graduated magna cum laude.