Biography
Stephen Karam is the author of Sons of the Prophet (2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, Sam Norkin Drama Desk Award), which recently ended its extended off-Broadway run in New York City (Roundabout Theatre Company) following its debut in Boston by the Huntington Theatre Company. Other plays include Speech & Debate (inaugural production of Roundabout Underground), columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop), and Girl on Girl (Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep). His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, American Theatre Magazine, Northwestern University Press and Dramatic Publishing Co.; he has also written online for NY Magazine, The Advocate and McSweeney's. A MacDowell Colony Fellow, Stephen grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Brown University. www.stephenkaram.com