CARSON KREITZER is the recipient of a 2016 Jonathan Larson Grant for LEMPICKA, a musical inspired by the life and art of Tamara de Lempicka, written with composer Matt Gould. LEMPICKA was featured in the NAMT festival in New York in October. Current projects include CAPITAL CRIME!, set in Gilded Age New York, and DANCE TILL YOU DROP, a new collaboration on marathon dancing with choreographer Regina Peluso. Her plays include THE LOVE SONG OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (Rosenthal New Play Prize, American Theatre Critics' Steinberg New Play Citation, and Barrie Stavis Award; published in Smith and Kraus' New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004), SELF DEFENSE or death of some salesmen, FLESH AND THE DESERT, THE SLOW DRAG (New York and London), SLITHER, BEHIND THE EYE, and LASSO OF TRUTH (NNPN Rolling World Premiere: Marin Theatre Company, Synchronicity Theatre, and Unicorn Theatre). Her plays have been produced or developed by the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Public Theatre, The Royal Court Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Portland Center Stage, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Mabou Mines, and the Actors Gang, among others. Ms. Kreitzer is a founding member of the Workhaus Collective, an alumna of New Dramatists, an affiliated writer with the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, and was the first Playwrights Of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center. Her collection SELF DEFENSE and other plays is available from No Passport Press.