Kirsten Childs
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Kirsten Childs is the award-winning writer of the musicals The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Miracle Brothers, Fly (with Rajiv Joseph and Bill Sherman), Funked Up Fairy Tales, and Bella: An American Tall Tale (directed by Robert O’Hara). Broadway: Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (text consultant and additional materials). Currently: The Three Musketeers (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). For her work, Kirsten has received Obie, Kleban, Larson, Richard Rodgers, Frederick Loewe, Audelco, Vivace and Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla awards, as well as Lortel and Drama Desk nominations. Bella was a 2018 finalist for the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama. Kirsten has written for Disney Theatricals, the American Songbook series at Lincoln Center, the New Electric Company, City Center Encores!, Works and Process @ Guggenheim Museum, and Premieres/Inner Voices under the producership of Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director of the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference. She is an adjunct professor in NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program and a member of the Dramatists Guild Council.