Discipline: Playwriting
Based In: New York, NY
Year at Millay: 2024
Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, NM (2023); Participant, The Orchard Project Performance Lab,, The Orchard Project, New York, NY (2021); Writer-in-Residence, Cinema & Media Arts and Theatre, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (2018-2020); Fellow Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, The Juilliard School, New York, NY (2016–2018); Fellow, Shank Playwriting Fellowship, Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY (2011–2012); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2009); Fellow, Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, Page Seventy-Three Productions, Inc., Brooklyn, NY (2007); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Artist-in-Residence, Literature, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY.
Website: https://www.kristaknight.com/
Krista Knight is a playwright and new media artist. Career highlights include scripting a ride for Tokyo Disneyland, meeting Václav Havel, pitching a movie to Janelle Monáe, writing a musical dance-a-thon to the death with Dave Malloy, and adapting Trolls for the stage for DreamWorks/Music Theatre International. Her New York Times recommended six-part VR puppet play Crush is streaming on the Emmy app. BA: Brown, MA: NYU, MFA: UC San Diego, Artist Diploma: Juilliard.