CURRENT RESIDENCE: Lawrence, Kansas
YEAR JOINED ENSEMBLE: 2016
POSITION: Playwright
AMERICAN BLUES THEATER CREDITS
RIPPED FESTIVAL (10+ years)
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ABOUT DARREN
Darren Canady’s work has been produced at Sound Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Aurora Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, Congo Square Theater, Horizon Theatre, London’s the Old Vic Theatre, M Ensemble, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, American Blues Theater, and others. His awards include the Alliance Theater’s Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award, Chicago’s Black Excellence Award, the Black Theatre Alliance Award, and the American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborn Award. His work has been developed at the Fremont Centre Theatre, Premiere Stages, and Playwright’s Realm. He is an alum of Carnegie Mellon University, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, The Juilliard School. He is also an alum of Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Playwright’s Center’s Core Writer Group, and Midwest Dramatists Center. He currently teaches playwriting at the University of Kansas.
FUN FACT
Darren’s first job was a theatre camp counselor named “Shaft”.