Adam Kraar
Ensemble Member
Adam Kraar’s work includes a quartet of plays about American families living in Asia, and a play inspired by the Civil Rights Movement’s “Freedom Summer.” His plays have been produced and developed at Primary Stages, The Public Theatre, Theatreworks U.S.A., Cherry Lane,
The New Group, LaMama, Geva, Performance Network, Alliance Repertory and many others. Fellowships from: Manhattan Theatre Club, Millay Colony, New River Dramatists and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Adam’s plays are published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Applause Books (including five BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS anthologies).
Recent work includes EMPIRE OF THE TREES (Wizard Oil Productions at Abingdon Theatre; NY Innovative Theatre Awards’ Outstanding Script Nominee); NEW WORLD RHAPSODY (Manhattan Theatre Club commission); THE SPIRIT HOUSE (Performance Network); THE ABANDONED EL (Illinois Theatre Center); WILD TERRAIN (EST Marathon of One-Act Plays) and FREEDOM HIGH (Queens Theatre in the Park).
Currently a Core Member of The Playwrights Center, Adam was a Playwrights’ Workshop Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and twice a resident playwright at the Inge Center for the Arts.
Adam grew up in India, Thailand, Singapore and the U.S. He earned an M.F.A. at Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Karen.