Ken Urban

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

Ken Urban’s plays include Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future Perfect, The Awake, and The Happy Sad. His plays have been produced in New York at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 59E59 Theatres, The Summer Play Festival at The Public, and Studio 42. His work has also been produced at Theatre503 in London, First Floor Theater in Chicago, and SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston. He has developed new plays at Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre Company, Theatre @ Boston Court, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Donmar Warehouse (London), and The Civilians R&D Group. His new play A Guide for the Homesick will receive its world premiere at the Huntington Theater Company in Boston in 2017-18.

Awards include the Weissberger Playwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Huntington Theater Playwriting Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Fellowships, Headlands Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship. Ken is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists and a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center.

He wrote the screenplay for feature-film adaptation of The Happy Sad, which screened internationally at over 25 film festivals and is now available on iTunes, Hulu, and Amazon.

His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service in the United States and Methuen in the United Kingdom and Europe, and they have been featured in numerous monologue anthologies.

His band Occurrence will release their new album The Past Will Last Forever on vinyl and digital in October 2016.

He lives in New York City. Education: BA, Bucknell University; PhD, Rutgers University. He teaches at Princeton University.