DGPD Instructor

Kirsten Childs

Their Dramatists Guild Professional Development Teaching History includes Masterclass in Writing for Musical Theatre and Two-Day Musical Theatre Workshop

KIRSTEN CHILDS is the award-winning writer of the musicals The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Playwrights Horizons), Miracle Brothers (Vineyard Theatre), Fly (with Rajiv Joseph and Bill Sherman), and Funked Up Fairy Tales. For her work she has received Obie, Kleban, Larson, Richard Rodgers, Audelco, and Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla awards, as well as Lortel and Drama Desk nominations. She recently collaborated with Charlayne Woodard on the musical Grace for Inner Voices: Solo Musicals. Kirsten has written for Disney Theatricals, the American Songbook series at Lincoln Center, the New Electric Company, Works and Process @ Guggenheim Museum, and City Center Encores!

She is a professor in NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, a member of The Dramatists Guild Council, on the Advisory Board of the Dramatists Guild Foundation, and is proud to be a mentor in Theatre Development Fund’s Open Doors program. Her newest musical, Bella: An American Tale, will play at Playwrights Horizons in May, 2017.