Sibyl Kempson
# Sibyl Kempson

Sibyl Kempson (born 1973) is an American playwright and performer, who received the 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-career.

Kempson was raised in Pequannock Township, New Jersey.

## Academics and fellowships

* She received her B.F.A. in 1995 from Bennington College.
* She received her M.F.A. in 2007 from Brooklyn College.
* She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow.
* She has taught at Brooklyn College, The New School, and Sarah Lawrence College.
* She is a 2014 USA Rockefeller Fellow.

## Collaborators

New York City Players, Elevator Repair Service, Big Dance Theater, Advanced Beginner Group, Mike Iveson, Rude Mechanicals (theater company), Salvage Vanguard, Physical Plant, Rubber Rep.

* She is a member of New Dramatists, class of 2017.

## Plays

* The Wytche of Problymm Plantation
* Bad Girls, Good Writers
* The Secret Death of Puppets (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or) Puppets Die In Secret
* Ich, Kürbisgeist
* Potatoes of August
* Crime or Emergency
* Restless Eye
* So Much To Go Crazy
* River of Gruel, Pile of Pigs: The Requisite Gesture(s) of Narrow Approach
