Kara Manning’s play Sleeping Rough was produced in 2013 by New York’s Page 73 Productions (receiving a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress) and also developed via TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as part of its 2012 New Works Festival. That play and others, including Mind the Gap, afterdark and Killing Swans, have been performed or developed at the Royal Court Theatre, Out of Joint, Hampstead Theatre, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Manhattan Theater Club, Atlantic Theater, Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theater, Page 73 Productions, Women’s Project, NYTW, High Tide Festival Productions, LAByrinth Theater, New Dramatists, the Lark Play Development Center and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Kara is the 2007 recipient of the Princess Grace Award in playwriting, a recipient...
Kara Manning’s play Sleeping Rough was produced in 2013 by New York’s Page 73 Productions (receiving a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress) and also developed via TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as part of its 2012 New Works Festival. That play and others, including Mind the Gap, afterdark and Killing Swans, have been performed or developed at the Royal Court Theatre, Out of Joint, Hampstead Theatre, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Manhattan Theater Club, Atlantic Theater, Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theater, Page 73 Productions, Women’s Project, NYTW, High Tide Festival Productions, LAByrinth Theater, New Dramatists, the Lark Play Development Center and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Kara is the 2007 recipient of the Princess Grace Award in playwriting, a recipient of a 2010-2011 Princess Grace Special Projects grant (for the development of a verbatim play, Totalshambles: Proposed Closure), a MacDowell Colony fellow and was awarded a 2011 EST/Sloan Foundation commission (The Book of Fixed Stars). She participated in New Dramatists’ 2014 Composer-Librettist Studio in conjunction with Nautilus Music Theater. Kara was also a finalist for the inaugural 2012-2014 Jerome New York Fellowship and shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Writers Academy. She is an alumnus of MCC Theater’s Playwrights Coalition, the Women’s Project Playwright Lab and the Royal Court’s International Residency. Member of the Dramatists Guild. She has served as an assistant director at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre (Fringe Festival) and as a research assistant to Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. Kara is the presenter/producer of a British music program, UKNY, on New York’s WFUV (an NPR affiliate), where she is also content editor and an on-air interviewer. She was the music supervisor for Stephen Belber’s film Match, starring Patrick Stewart and Carla Gugino, premiering at Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014. She is also a freelance music/arts journalist, a former MTV News reporter and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine and wrote liner notes for the Grammy-nominated Rhino box set Respect: A Century of Women in Music. Kara is also the literary manager of the Irish Repertory Theatre. Graduate of Columbia University's M.F.A. program in playwriting.