Kira Obolensky
Core Writer
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Biography

Kira Obolensky is a Mellon Foundation Playwright in residence at Ten Thousand Things Theater. She has written three plays for that theater, most recently Dirt Sticks which premiered in the spring of 2014. Her plays have been performed around the country and abroad. She has received many awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim fellowship, the Kesselring Prize and Le Comte de Nuys playwriting fellowship, as well as grants from the Bush, McKnight, and Jerome Foundations. Kira has written three books about architecture and design, including co-authoring the national best seller, The Not So Big House. Her novella, The Anarchists Float to St. Louis, won Quarterly West's novella prize. A graduate of Juilliard's playwriting program and Williams College, Kira teaches at the University of Minnesota and in Spalding University's low residency MFA program. 

Successes

Core Writer Kira Obolensky's Four Measures, which was comissioned by Trademark Theatre of Saint Paul, MN last year, will recieve a digital workshop as a part of Trademark's fourth season in partnership with the Playwrights' Center. Full announcement found here.

Kira Obolensky was selected for a residency with Ten Thousand Things Theatre through the Mellon Foundation's National Playwright Residency Program