Ken Urban
Playwright, Author
1974 –
Who is Ken Urban?
Ken Urban is a playwright, screenwriter and director. He was born in New Jersey in 1974. He currently lives in New York City. He teaches at Princeton University. He is a graduate of Bucknell University and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Rutgers University.
His plays have been produced and developed at Summer Play Festival at The Public, Donmar Warehouse, TimeLine Theatre Company, Studio 42, Theatre @ Boston Court, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Irish Rep, Primary Stages, and The Huntington. The Awake opened at 59E59 Theatres in August, starring Maulik Pancholy from Weeds and 30 Rock. The New York Times named the show a Critic’s Pick and it played for a sold out run. The Correspondent opens at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in February, directed by Stephen Brackett.
Urban was the Founding Artistic Director of The Committee, a New York-based theatre company that produced “catastrophic theatre" including the first workshop production of Sarah Kane's Cleansed.
In 2009, he won the 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Award, given each year by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, for his play Sense of an Ending.
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- Born
- 1974
New Jersey - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bucknell University
- Rutgers University
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on July 23, 2013
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