karen hartman (playwright)

Hartman's work launches VOLT, an unprecedented festival of three Off-Broadway premieres by a single author simultaneously. Earlier this year, Denver Theater Center presented the world premiere musical Rattlesnake Kate, book by Hartman, score by Neyla Pekarek. Good Faith: Four Chats about Race and the New Haven Fire Department premiered at Yale Repertory Theater. Roz and Ray (McKnight Fellowship, Edgerton New Play Prize) premiered at Seattle Rep and Victory Gardens. New York credits include Leah's Train (NAATCO), Gum (WP Theater), and Girl Under Grain (Best Drama, NY Fringe). Hartman is developing Project Dawn (People's Light, NNPN Rolling World Premiere) for Population Media Center as a television series. Alice Bliss (book: Hartman, music: Jenny Giering, lyrics: Adam Gwon, based on Laura Harrington's novel) won the 2019 Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award. Her prose has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post. A recent Guggenheim Fellow and former Fulbright Scholar, Hodder Fellow, and New Dramatist, Hartman lives in Brooklyn with her family.