April 23-27, 2022 Kean University's workshop reading of Dreams on Fire, by Kean students in our new projection space in The Library. 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083
www.kean.edu
Jan Balakian (Cornell Ph.D., Brown M.A.T., Bucknell B.A. with honors) teaches literature and writing at Kean University. She has published essays about American Drama (Cambridge UP, Palgrave, Penn State), interviews with Arthur Miller and Wendy Wasserstein, a cultural studies book about the plays of Wasserstein(Applause), written two prize-winning screenplays, www.nytimes.com/2001/08/05/nyregion/professor, and hosted the first international conference at Kean, “Why American Plays Matter,” funded by the NJ Council for the Humanities.
Jan’s 1989 student play won Cornell’s playwriting prize and contained...
April 23-27, 2022 Kean University's workshop reading of Dreams on Fire, by Kean students in our new projection space in The Library. 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083
www.kean.edu
Jan Balakian (Cornell Ph.D., Brown M.A.T., Bucknell B.A. with honors) teaches literature and writing at Kean University. She has published essays about American Drama (Cambridge UP, Palgrave, Penn State), interviews with Arthur Miller and Wendy Wasserstein, a cultural studies book about the plays of Wasserstein(Applause), written two prize-winning screenplays, www.nytimes.com/2001/08/05/nyregion/professor, and hosted the first international conference at Kean, “Why American Plays Matter,” funded by the NJ Council for the Humanities.
Jan’s 1989 student play won Cornell’s playwriting prize and contained the seeds for Dreams on Fire, written with Gran’s inspection ticket by her side. Dreams is the first American play to tell the story of The Armenian Genocide and the transmission of trauma in the context of college students set before the 2016 election. Jan will do whatever work is required to bring this story to production. Eric Hollander, M.D. is the consulting neuroscientist for the play.