KINSHIP by
A middle-aged female journalist becomes obsessed with a young writer in her employ, and ends up crossing every line to keep him in her orbit. She ultimately discovers that he's the son of a close friend.
Carey Perloff
Carey Perloff
CAREY PERLOFF is a director, playwright, producer and educator who served as Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater from 1992-2018. At A.C.T., PERLOFF staged dozens of classical and contemporary plays and nurtured a three-decade collaboration with Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard resulting in her new book PINTER AND STOPPARD: A DIRECTOR’S VIEW (Bloomsbury Methuen 2022). Recent directing work...
CAREY PERLOFF is a director, playwright, producer and educator who served as Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater from 1992-2018. At A.C.T., PERLOFF staged dozens of classical and contemporary plays and nurtured a three-decade collaboration with Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard resulting in her new book PINTER AND STOPPARD: A DIRECTOR’S VIEW (Bloomsbury Methuen 2022). Recent directing work includes GHOSTS (trans. Paul Walsh) at Seattle Rep (April 2022) and Williamstown, PALE FIRE by Colm Toibin at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, MERCHANT OF VENICE starring Seana McKenna at the Shakespeare Company, Calgary, and A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS at Arena Stage. Perloff has staged numerous plays at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and at theaters across Canada. As a playwright, Perloff’s work includes IF GOD WERE BLUE (written on a Bogliasco Foundation Residency, workshopped at New York Stage and Film and at the Roundabout, Vivienne Benesch, dir.), EDGARDO OR WHITE FIRE (WTF commission, 2022 Finalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference), HIGHER (Winner, 2011 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Theater Visions Award, premiered at A.C.T., Mark Rucker, dir., developed at DNA Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Christopher Ashley, dir.), LUMINESCENCE DATING (Sloane Foundation Commission, Bay Area Theater Critics Best Original Script premiered at Ensemble Studio Theater, NYC, Will Pomerantz, dir., and then at Magic Theatre, SF, Mark Rucker, dir.), KINSHIP (premiered at the Theatre de Paris starring Isabelle Adjani, Domenique Born, dir., US Premiere at WTF starring Cynthia Nixon, Jo Bonney, dir.) and THE FIT (SF Playhouse 2019, Bill English, dir., developed at NYSF and WTF). Perloff is the author of BEAUTIFUL CHAOS: A LIFE IN THE THEATER (City Lights Press 2015) which was named San Francisco’s “One City One Read” selection for 2015. In 2007, Perloff was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and has been awarded honorary degrees from University of San Francisco and A.C.T. She is working on a Director Commission for SRT of the OEDIPUS cycle with John Douglas Thompson, and has been commissioned by Digital Theatre+ to create a new digital rehearsal series. (Careyperloff.com)