Carson Kreitzer

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Carson Kreitzer
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Alma mater University of Texas at Austin
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Carson Kreitzer is an American playwright currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1991 [1] with a B.A. in theatre and literature and an M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Kreitizer is an associated artist with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, [2] the Fire Department, [3] and Park Square Theatre, and was a resident playwright with New Dramatists from 2006-2013. She is a member of the Workhaus Collective, the Dramatists Guild, and The Playwrights' Center where, in 2013, she became a board member. [4] Her plays The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Self Defense, or death of some salesmen are published in the Smith and Kraus collections Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004 and 2002 respectively., and the plays Self Defense, Oppenheimer, 1:23, and Slither are available in one volume from NoPassport Press [5] (2011).

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