Karen Malpede, ecofeminist playwright and director: Other Than We, a cli-fi futurist fable for a time of climate crisis, premieres at LaMama, Nov. 21- Dec 1 2019, forthcoming from Laertes Books; Plays in Time: The Beekeeper's Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether (Intellect, 2017), "Dinner During Yemen," Kenyon review; she is co-founder of Theater Three Collaborative, editor Acts of War: Iraq & Afghanistan in Seven Plays (Northewestern, 2011).
Karen Malpede, author/director of 19 plays, is co-founder with George Bartenieff of Theater Three Collaborative, an ecofeminist theater company begun in 1995. Most recent, "Other Than We," World Premiere at LaMama, Nov. 21-Dec 1, 2019, forthcoming publication in an international anthology of dystopian plays by Laertes Books. "Blue Valiant", for Kathleen Chalfant and a blue roan horse, in development. "Dinner During Yemen", in Imagine: Yemen, Irene Diamond, Signature Theatre, 2018, pub: The Kenyon Review. "Extreme Whether," LaMama, 2018; Paris ArtCop21, 2015; Theater for the New City, 2014. Author: Plays in Time: The Beekeeper's Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether (Intellect, 2017); editor, Acts of War: Iraq & Afghanistan in Seven Plays (Northwestern, 2011). McKnight Fellowship. www.theaterthreecollaborative.org
