Kira Obolensky
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 Kira Obolensky is an award-winning playwright and writer based in Minneapolis, MN. A Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence with Ten Thousand Things Theater, Kira has written nine plays that perform for a wide-range of audiences, from incarcerated men and women, to a paying audience.  Why We Laugh: A Terezin Cabaret performed at two international festivals.  (Check out "Why We Laugh" to see photos of the production in Terezin). Her novella, "The Anarchists Float to St. Louis" won the Quarterly West Novella Contest, judged by Padgett Powell.  Kira is a co-founder of The Gymnasium, a consortium of creative risk takers in and out of the arts. (www.thegymtc.com)  For information on Kira's puppet collaborations, click on "Puppets."
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