Each month on The Subtext, Brian speaks with a playwright about life, writing, and whatever itches we are scratching.
This month he talks with Kira Obolensky, a Minneapolis-based playwright whose plays have been produced Off Broadway, across the country and internationally, as well as for audiences in prisons, shelters and immigrant centers. She shares stories and experiences, from her immigrant parents meeting in the United States, to her long creative relationship with Ten Thousand Things. “Instead of a career,” she says she, “has a body of work and a life.”
Kira Obolensky is a Guggenheim and Mellon Foundation Fellow, a graduate of Juilliard’s Playwriting Program, a core writer at the Playwrights’ Center, and a member of The Tent. She also teaches in the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. New work includes the short film The Lion starring Judith Roberts and a new play commissioned by Mixed Blood, which will premiere in September directed by Michael John Garcés.
