Ken Urban is a playwright and director. He was born in New Jersey in 1974.[1] He now divides his time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City. He teaches at Harvard University. He is a graduate of Bucknell University and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Rutgers University.
Ken Urban’s plays have been produced and developed at The Summer Play Festival @ The Public, The Flea, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Huntington Theatre, Moving Arts, Target Margin, Theatre of NOTE, Rude Guerrilla, The Mill @ Stage Left, Son of Semele Ensemble, Urban Stages, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Soho Rep, Annex Theatre and The Chocolate Factory.[2] His work has been published in New York Theatre Review and Plays and Playwrights 2002, in addition to numerous monologue and scene compilations.[3]
Urban was the Founding Artistic Director of The Committee, a New York-based theatre company that produces “catastrophic theatre.” He is no longer involved in the company.[4]
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.[5] Urban maintains a website with information on his theatre and music. He is represented by Joseph Rosswog at the Gersh Agency. In 2009, his play The Happy Sad was part of the Summer Play Festival at the Public and featured Maulik Pancholy, Michael Stahl-David, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Ari Graynor, Heidi Schreck, Christopher Abbott and Sue Jean Kim.[6][7] His play Nibbler was also performed in Los Angeles with music by indie-rock band Xiu Xiu.[8][9] Ken also plays in the Boston-based band The Avon Barksdale and makes electronic music as Occurrence.[10]
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