Kira Obolensky | |
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 Obolensky in 2016 | |
| Born | New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Playwright, author |
| Alma mater | Williams College |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1997) |
Kira Obolensky is an American playwright and author based in Minneapolis. [1] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997 in the field of drama and performance art. [2] She won a Bush Foundation artist's fellowship in 1999. [3]
Obolensky was born in New York to a Russian father and an Australian mother. She has two younger sisters. Obolensky was raised in Texas and New Orleans. She completed a degree at Williams College. [3]
Obolensky adapted Holocaust survivor Sabina Zimering's memoir into a play in 2010. [4] [5] [6]
Obolensky lives in South Minneapolis and is married to sculptor Irve Dell. [3]
Sarah Susanka is an English-born American-based architect, an author of nine best-selling books, and a public speaker. Susanka is the originator of the "Not So Big" philosophy of residential architecture, which aims to "build better, not bigger." Susanka has been credited with initiating the tiny-house movement.
A garage apartment is an apartment built within the walls of, or on top of, the garage of a house. The garage may be attached or a separate building from the main house, but will have a separate entrance and may or may not have a communicating door to the main house. A garage apartment is one type of "accessory dwelling unit" or ADU, a term used by architects, urban planners and in zoning ordinances to identify apartments smaller than the main dwelling on one lot or parcel of land. Other examples of ADU's include granny flats, English basements, mother-in-law suites, and auxiliary units.
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Kimberly Johnson is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.
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Tracey Scott Wilson is an American playwright, television writer, television producer, and screenwriter. She graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in English and from Temple University with an MA in English Literature.
Amy Wilentz is an American journalist and writer. She is a Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches in the Literary Journalism program. She received a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti, as well as a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction. Wilentz was the Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker, and is a contributing editor at The Nation.
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Mildred "Mickey" Friedman was an American architecture and design curator and editor of the journal Design Quarterly.
Dorie Barton is an American actor, writer, and director. She began her professional acting career working on a television soap opera and went on to appear in various theater, film, and television productions. She made her debut as a writer-director of film in 2016, and also teaches theater at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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