Sherry Kramer is an American playwright who was born in Springfield, Missouri. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, teaches playwriting at Bennington College, and regularly teaches in the MFA programs of The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin and the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop. Kramer’s intent is for her plays to invite the audience to find new ways to understand who we are as a nation and how we might find our way back to being generous, fair-minded people. She is the recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a McKnight National Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and commissions from the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre Project, and the Moscow Art Theatre/UI International Writers Program. Her plays have been produced and shown at festivals across the United States and abroad.