The New York Times reviewed a play by Ken Urban who is joining MTA as Senior Lecturer in Theater Arts this coming fall.
Ken Urban’s “Nibbler,” about teenagers in suburban New Jersey, is the kind of play that doesn’t know where to set down its lunch tray. Produced by the Amoralists at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, it’s part science-fiction yarn, part horror tale, part sex farce, part memory play and, briefly, a musical. Sometimes it smokes behind the bleachers; sometimes it leads the pep rally. When it goofs off, it’s pretty negligible. But when it takes itself seriously, it matures into a melancholy comedy about growing up and apart.
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About Ken Urban
Ken Urban is a playwright and screenwriter based in New York. His plays include Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future Perfect, The Awake, and The Happy Sad. His work has been produced Off-Broadway 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. He wrote the screenplay for The Happy Sad, which screened internationally at over 25 film festivals, and is now available on iTunes and Amazon. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service in the United States and Methuen in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Awards include the Weissberger Playwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Playwriting, Huntington Theater Playwriting Fellowship, Headlands Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and MacDowell Colony Fellowships. He is a member playwright at New Dramatists in New York, and a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis.
