Kira Obolensky
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    Plays (script-based)


    Why We Laugh: A Terezin Cabaret, premiered in Czech Republic, summer 2011 (photos above)
    The Invention of the Third Dimension and The Secret Lives of Doubles, Playlabs 2010
    Raskol, Ten Thousand Things Theatre, 2009
    The Adventures of Herculina produced by Next Theatre, Frank Theatre,  workshop production at the Juilliard School, directed by Chris Durang. Honorable mention, The Kesselring Prize; Edith Oliver Award.
    Lobster Alice produced by Jungle, Synchronicity, Playwrights' Horizons, Blank Theatre; winner of the Kesselring Prize; anthologized in Best Women Playwrights 1999; published by Playscripts 
    Modern House finalist Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
    Mambo 55 Red Eye Collaboration
    The Whalebone Sonata  commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company
    Lune (pronounced loony) B-Street Theatre
    Collected short plays McCarter, Guthrie, People's Light, various other theatres


    Plays (collaborative)

    The Oldest Story in the World, Southern Theatre, October 2010 (with Theatre Novi Most)
    Permanence Collection, Walker Art Center May 2008 (with Ed Bok Lee)
    Force/Matter, The Gymnasium, presented at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, March 2008 and in Minneapolis at Studio 206, 2011
    Snowman, Open Eye Figure Theatre (with Michael Sommers, Eric Jensen, Michael Murnane)
    Master and Margarita, University of Minnesota (with Michael Sommers, Shawn McConneloug, Luverne Seifert, Eric Jensen) one of critics' Top Ten Productions of 2006


    Plays (object theatre, puppet plays)

    Quicksilver: commissioned by 3Legged Race and the Playwrights' Center, 2003, presented in Minneapolis (top experimental theatre citation), Prague International Fringe, 2006; Philadelphia (2007, Gas and Electric Arts
    poor little poor girl: Flatworks produced by Open Eye Figure Theatre, 2004
    Cabinet of Wonder:an impossible history: produced by Gas and Electric Arts, Philadelphia, September 2009 (Barrymore Nomination for Best Play) and Open Eye Figure Theatre, Minneapolis, 2010


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    Upcoming productions

    Vasa Lisa, the Wise, Ten Thousand Things Theatre, spring 2011