CAROLYN KRAS
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Bachelor of Arts
Major: Drama; Minors: Writing and Political Science
PLAYWRITING HONORS/AWARDS
*The Playwrights Union Member, 2017–Present
Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest Finalist, 2017
*Milken Playwriting Prize Finalist, 2017
*Inkslinger Playwriting Competition Finalist, 2017
*Antaeus Theatre Company Playwrights Lab, 2017-Present
*Ebell of Los Angeles Playwright Prize Finalist, 2016
*Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest Finalist, 2016
*Playwrights First Award: Second Place, 2016
*Fulbright LUSK Award to the U.K./Playwright in Residence at Sell A Door Theatre Company, 2015-2016
*Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, 2015
*Disquiet International Short Play Contest Winner, 2015
*Marion Fellowship Semifinalist, 2015
*Princess Grace Award Semifinalist, 2014
*Kitchen Dog Theater New Works Festival Finalist, 2014
*Women’s Project Lab Semifinalist, 2014
*Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, 2014
*Ronald Duncan Playwriting Competition Finalist, 2014
*Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award Finalist, 2013
*Old Vic New Voices Bloomingdale’s Playwrights Week Finalist, 2013
*Ucross Foundation Residency, 2013
*L. Arnold Weissberger Award Nominee, 2013
*Leah Ryan’s Fund for Emerging Women Writers Finalist, 2013
*Anderson Center Resident Fellow, 2013
*Theater Masters Visionary Playwright Award and Commission, 2012
*Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, 2012
*Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award Finalist, 2011
*Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival Finalist, 2011
*Ragdale Foundation writer-in-residence, March 2011
*Theater Masters: National M.F.A. Playwrights Festival Selection, 2010
*K.C.A.C.T.F. Region II One-Act Play Award, 2010
*Shubert Fellowship, 2008–2010
*Voted “Best Playwright” in the Looking Glass Theatre’s Spring 2008 Writer/Director Forum
*K.C.A.C.T.F. Region V Commendation for Meritorious Achievement in Playwriting for
HIGHNESS, 2007
*K.C.A.C.T.F. Region V Double Semi-finalist, Ten-Minute Play Competition, 2006
*Leota Diesel Ashton Playwriting Prize, 2006
*A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Prize, 2004 and 2005
*Howard Nemerov Writing Scholars Program & Scholarship, August 2002–December 2005
SCREENWRITING HONORS/AWARDS
*Named to ISA’s List of “Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2020”
*Plume & Pellicule Award, 2018
*Vail Film Festival’s Screenplay Contest: First Place Comedy Feature Screenplay, 2017
*Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters’ Lab, 2012
*Swansea Bay Film Festival Original Screenplay Finalist, 2011
*WriteMovies.com Second Place Award, 2011
*Women in Film Mentorship Program, 2011
*Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Carnegie Mellon First Place Screenwriting Award, 2010
*Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist, 2010
T.V. WRITING HONORS/AWARDS
*Women in Film Mentorship Program Writer/Showrunner Circle, 2019
*Fresh Voices Drama Pilot Honorable Mention (Top 3), 2019
*Emerging Screenwriters 3rd Place, 2018
*TRMS Austin Competition 2nd Place, 2018
*C21 Media/Script Angel @ Content London Drama Script Series Competition Finalist, 2018
*New York Television Festival Scripts Official Selection, 2018
*William Randolph Hearst Creative Artist Fellow at The American Antiquarian Society, 2014
*Scriptapalooza T.V. Writing Competition Second Place (Sitcom Category), 2010
PLAYWRITING HIGHLIGHTS
Artemisia Theatre – Reading
MINE & YOURS, directed by Carol Ann Tan
October 2018
Theatre 40 – Beverly Hills, CA – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Dennis Gersten
September 2018
Cypress College New Play Festival – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Blake Bonilla
July 2017
Antaeus Theatre Company – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Emily Chase
July 2017
Last Frontier Theatre Conference – Reading
THE SUBJECT, self-directed
June 2017
Antaeus Academy – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Emily Chase
May 2017
Weber State University – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Jennifer Kokai
March 2017
INK Fest by 2Cents Theatre Group – Full Production
WHISTLEBLOWER, directed by John Wallis
March 2017
ReVamp Collective – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Meg Trelease
March 2017
The Blank Theatre Living Room Series – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Dennis Gersten
December 2016
Blue Ash Theatre Company & Siberian Lights – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Ellie Heydon
November 2016
Artery Playwrights Project at Samuel French Bookstore Hollywood – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Dennis Gersten
October 2016
Brescia University & Theatre Workshop of Owensboro & Kentucky Wesleyan College – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Amanda Dawson
September 2016
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Catherine Moore
September 2016
Found Stages – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Nichole Palmietto
September 2016
Nothing Special Productions – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Renee M. Rock
September 2016
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Paul McArthur & Lori-Jane McLare
September 2016
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Cynthia Cunningham
September 2016
Wright State University – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Marya Spring Cordes
September 2016
Pride Films & Plays & Not In Our House – Reading
THE SUBJECT, directed by Lavina Jadhwani
September 2016
The Road Theatre Company – Summer Playwrights Festival Reading
MINE & YOURS, directed by Dennis Gersten
August 2016
Sell a Door Theatre Company / United Nations Orange Day Event – Reading
THE SUBJECT, full-length, directed by Grace Joseph
May 2016
Sell a Door Theatre Company / United Nations Orange Day Event at Upstairs at The Arts Theatre – Reading
THE SUBJECT, full-length, directed by Anna Fox
May 2016
TwoRep Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Full Production
THE LITTLE PRINCE (new adaptation), one-act, directed by Anna Fox
August 2015
Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal – Reading
RETICENCE, ten-minute, directed by John Frey
July 2015
Williams Street Rep – Lab: Series – Reading
MINE & YOURS, full-length, directed by Pat Henderson
May 2015
Chicago One Minute Play Festival – Full Production
OH, RATS, one-minute, directed by Thrisa Hodits
April 2015
Chicago One Minute Play Festival – Full Production
GRIPE, one-minute, directed by Diana Raiselis
April 2015
Three Cat Productions – Chicago New Work Festival – Reading
MINE & YOURS, full-length, directed by Pat Henderson
January 2015
20% Theatre Company Chicago – Dark Room – Reading
MINE & YOURS, full-length, directed by Emmi Hilger
January 2015
Stage Left Theatre – LeapFest – Staged Reading
MINE & YOURS, full-length, directed by Ann Shanahan
June 2014
Live Girls! Theater – Full Production
AMERICAN MASTODON, ten-minute, directed by Katherine Karaus
April 2014
Chicago One Minute Play Festival – Full Production
CHOMP, one-minute, directed by Hutch Pimentel
April 2014
Chicago One Minute Play Festival – Full Production
C.H.I.C.A.G.O., one-minute, directed by Scott Weinstein
April 2014
Chicago Dramatists – Staged Reading
AMERICAN MASTODON, ten-minute, directed by Rachel Edwards Harvith
March 2014
Chicago Dramatists – Reading
MINE & YOURS, full-length, directed by Lavina Jadhwani
March 2014
Theater Masters – Reading
HIGHNESS, full-length, directed by Hal Brooks
December 2013
Pittsburgh New Works Festival – Full Production
WHISTLEBLOWER, one-act, directed by Dr. Carol Schafer
September 2013
ATHE New Play Development Workshop – Reading
MASTODON PLAY, ten-minute, directed by Anne Healy
August 2013
Chicago One-Minute Play Festival – Full Production
THE CITY AND I, one-minute, directed by Jason Gerace
June 2013
Last Frontier Theatre Conference – Reading
WHISTLEBLOWER, one-act, self-directed
May 2013
Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre/Univ. of Pittsburgh – Reading
HIGHNESS, full-length, directed by Michael Fuller
February 2012
Long Beach Playhouse – Reading
HIGHNESS, full-length, directed by Caprice Spencer Rothe
August 2011
The Puzzle: Marble’s Festival of New Work – Staged Reading
RETICENCE, short, directed by Aaron Vega
May 2011
Great Plains Theatre Conference – Playlabs Reading
WHISTLEBLOWER, one-act, directed by M. Michele Phillips
May 2010
Centenary Stage Company’s Women Playwrights Series – Reading
THREE EXTINCTIONS, ten-minute, directed by Maria Brodeur
April 2010
Theater Masters National M.F.A. Playwrights Festival, N.Y.C. – Equity Showcase
A WAKE OF VULTURES, ten-minute, directed by Margarett Perry
April 2010
Theater Masters – Aspen Workshop Production
A WAKE OF VULTURES, ten-minute, directed by Margarett Perry
January 2010
Carnegie Mellon University – Workshop Production
BENEATH, full-length, directed by Marya Spring Cordes
February 2010
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region II – Reading
WHISTLEBLOWER, one-act, directed by Michael O’Steen
January 2010
The Looking Glass Theatre – Full Production
SKETCH, ten-minute, directed by Jen Browne
June 2008
Washington University Performing Arts Department – Full Production
HIGHNESS, full-length, directed by Senior Lecturer Annamaria Pileggi
March 2007
Theatre Seven of Chicago – Reading
HIGHNESS, full-length, directed by Margot Bordelon
September 2006
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival – Staged Readings
SKETCH, ten-minute, directed by Scott Swezey
January 2006
RETICENCE, ten-minute, directed by Jessica Hovey
January 2006
Andy Griffith Playhouse – Full Production
RETICENCE, ten-minute, directed by Cat O’Connor Olson
January 2005
A.E. Hotchner Festival – Readings
HIGHNESS, dramaturged by Naomi Iizuka; directed by Annamaria Pileggi
November 2005
RETICENCE, dramaturged by Liz Engelman; directed by Carter W. Lewis
November 2004
AFFILIATIONS
Dramatists Guild of America
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Filmpowered
Independent Writers Caucus of the W.G.A.
International Centre for Women Playwrights
Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative
The Playwrights’ Center
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
