Kirsten's plays include ZENITH, BALTIMORE, MILK LIKE SUGAR, THE LUCK OF THE IRISH, SANS-CULOTTES IN THE PROMISED LAND, and BOSSA NOVA. Her work most of explores race, gender, class, and how these intersect in twentieth and twenty first century American society. Kirsten has enjoyed development experiences at the Family Residency at Space at Ryder Farm, Huntington Summer Playwrights Workshop, the O'Neill, Bay Area Playwrights, among others. Her work has been produced at MetroStage Company, La Jolla Playhouse, the Kennedy Center, LTC3 (Lincoln Center 3), Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington Theatre Company, Company One Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Humana Festival/Actor's Theatre Of Louisville, and Yale Repertory Theatre. She is the proud recipient of an Obie Award (The Luck of the Irish), San Diego Critics Award, two Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, two Edgerton Awards, a former National Endowment for the Arts Residency Grant to work with Woolly Mammoth Theatre, a Lucille Lortel nomination recipient, and a past KC/ACTF Kennedy Center Lorraine Hansberry Award winner. Kirsten is currently working on two commissions from the Huntington, one of which is an adaptation of J. Anthony Lukas' Pulitzer Prize winning book COMMON GROUND, with director Melia Bensussen, as well as LITTLE BOAT, commissioned by Yale Rep, ROLL, BELINDA, ROLL, commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare's American Revolutions Project, BEACON, commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, and FOR THE GREATER GOOD, commissioned by Company One Theatre. Kirsten is part of the current 2016-2019 cohort of the Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residency Program administered in partnership with HowlRound. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Boston University where she overseas the School of Theatre's Playwrighting track of study for undergraduates.