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Kristen Palmer

KRISTEN PALMER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Kristen Palmer is a 2008-09 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights Center. Her play, the MELTING POINT was a finalist for the 2008 National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center. Her plays include: DEPARTURES, LOCAL STORY, ALL the GIRLS LOVE BOBBY KENNEDY, the HEART IN YOUR CHEST, the MELTING POINT and several shorter ones. these have been produced and developed by Overlap Productions, Blue Coyote Theatre, Soho Rep, P73, Clubbed Thumb, Nascent Works, New Georges and Theatre of NOTE among others. She is an associate artist of New Georges and a Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab Alumni.

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         All the Girls Love Bobby Kennedy         Children Cover Your Ears         Confidence         Departures         Descending In Bits And Pieces         Disconnected         Esther         Gloucester Point         Heart In Your Chest         Local Story         Marina and the Pole         Melting Point         Once Upon A Bride There Was A Forest         Quiet Killers         Ruby Red Wrench         Sacrifice         Sad         Something Decent         Standards of Decency Project         Stray Dog         Verilee         We Play For the Gods         What We Have         Writing the Girl

All the Girls Love Bobby Kennedy

Synopsis:
1968 and a college school girl dreams of Bobby Kennedy, sex and love.

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Children Cover Your Ears

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Summerworks Short Play Event    2006

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Confidence

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Departures

Synopsis:
Cara is an American ex-pat living in Britain who decides to return to the U.S. after three years. But with the death of her Father and loss of her childhood home, Cara's decision to return is filled with anxiety. What, exactly, is she returning home to? Complicating things further is the boyfriend who refuses to let go
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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    2007

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Blue Coyote Theater Group

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Play/Drama 75 min

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Descending In Bits And Pieces

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Bakers Dozen Play Festival, Seattle    11 May 1998

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Disconnected

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Esther

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Gloucester Point

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Heart In Your Chest

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Local Story

Synopsis:
D'Lady returns home upsetting the delicate balance of the small town she left years ago.

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1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    2007

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Overlap Productions

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Genre:
Character-driven Drama. 90 min

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Marina and the Pole

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Melting Point

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Once Upon A Bride There Was A Forest

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Warren proposes to Josie. Josie decides that she wants to trace her lost father before walking down the aisle. She is soon caught up in a web of danger and magic

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The Adrienne, Philadelphia, PA    -

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InterAct Theatre

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Quiet Killers

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Ruby Red Wrench

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Sacrifice

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Sad

Synopsis:
Rose kisses the Lizard Boy because he is so sad.

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Written by Adam Szymkowicz And Kirsten Palmer

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Something Decent

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Standards of Decency Project

Synopsis:
Blue Coyote theater Group presents a program of nine new short plays that collectively the notions of decency and obscenity. the playwrights were asked to write a piece that includes at least one of these elements--nudity, blasphemy, and violence--in a manner that is fully warranted and justified (that is, that avoids mere gratuitousness or sensationalism), while also intended to offend conventional standards of decency. Blue Coyote says that it seeks to spark a discussion about the uses and abuses of transgressive performance onstage with this presentation.
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the playwrights Are: David Johnston, Matthew Freeman, David Foley, Brian Dykstra, Boo Killebrew, Laura Henry, Kristen Palmer, John Yearley, And Stan Richardson

1st Produced:
Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY 10013    2006

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Blue Coyote Theater Group

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Stray Dog

Synopsis:
A play obsessed with the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and dedicated to any who dare endure in the folly and the imperative that is art.

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1st Produced:
Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmys No. 43, New York City    23 Jan 2011

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one act 60 min

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Verilee

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We Play For the Gods

Synopsis:
"We Play for the Gods was prompted by the question 'on whose shoulders do we as women theater artists stand?'" says Women's Project Producing Artistic Director Julie Crosby. This question led 14 artists of the Women's Project Lab to Ellen Stewart, the legendary founder of La MaMa who in the 1960s blew open the doors of Dramatic expression and gave voice to an extraordinary and diverse generation of theater artists. Inspired by her words, 'We play for the Gods and in return, they play for us,' this collaborative play was developed at Womens Project over eighteen months, three workshops, abundant good humor, and the occasional mojito." We Play for the Gods is the tale of four ordinary women working in a research institute and one trickster goddess who messes around with their lives as only a deity can.
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Created By: Alexandra Collier, Elizabeth R. English, Charity Ballard, Jessi D. Hill, Andrea Kuchlewska, Manda Martin, Dominique Morisseau, Kristen Palmer, Sarah Rasmussen, Mia Rovegno, Melisa Tien, Nicole A. Watson, Stephanie Ybarra, Stefanie Zadravec

1st Produced:
Cherry Lane theatre
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014    01 Jun 2012

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Women's Project

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piece

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What We Have

Synopsis:
ForePlay is Flux Theatre Ensemble's annual exploratory staged reading series where playwrights riff on the themes of Flux's main production. Human 2.0 riffed on August Schulenburg's play about the next step in human evolution, DEINDE. Over three nights, Flux presented short plays by 14 playwrights imagining what various human senses will look like in the future. What if we had the capacity to smell like a dog? Use radar like a bat? See all the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum? How will we upgrade our sense of beauty and justice? What will happen when we truly have unlimited memory? All of these short plays explore what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological change.

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1st Produced:
Bruce Mitchell Room at ART/NY    09 Apr 2012

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a ForePlay staged reading series by Flux Theatre Ensemble

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in "Human 2.0 Part 3", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Writing the Girl

Synopsis:
William dreams up Hermia as she tries to stay in her own dream.

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1st Produced:
4th St. Theatre, NYC.    2008

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FLUX Theatre Ensemble

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