2025 Umble Master Class in Speech and Theatre

Umble Master Class in Speech and Theatre: Carson Kreitzer, American playwright

Date and Time: Tuesday, February 4 at 7 p.m.

Location: Umble Center

Cost: Free and open to the public

Carson Kreitzer

Carson Kreitzer, a playwright, lyricist, librettist and a Guggenheim, MacDowell, and McKnight Fellow, will speak at Goshen College’s Umble Master Class in Speech and Theatre on Feb. 4. Her speech begins at 7 p.m.

Carson’s play LEMPIKA (book, lyrics, and original concept by Kreitzer, book and music by Matt Gould) inspired by the life and art of Tamara de Lempicka, opened on Broadway on April 14th, 2024, directed by Rachel Chavkin. Her other plays include The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Rosenthal New Play Prize, Steinberg New Play Citation, and Stavis Award), The Slow Drag (Off-Broadway, West End), Behind the Eye (Cincinnati Playhouse), Flesh and the Desert (Workhaus Collective), and Lasso of Truth (NNPN Rolling World Premiere – Marin Theatre Company, Synchronicity, Unicorn Theatre). Upcoming projects include: the climate-crisis plays TIMEBOMB (developed with A.R.T., Kitchen Theatre Company and The Playwrights’ Center) and Svalbard,  inspired by her time in the Arctic exploring the Svalbard Archipelago as part of The Arctic Circle Artist and Scientist Residency Program, as well as Capital Crime!, a play with songs set in Gilded Age New York.

Kreitzer is an Affiliated Writer with The Playwrights’ Center, an alumna of New Dramatists, and was the first Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark. She has received support from the NEA, TCG, and the Jerome Foundation. She received her B.A. from Yale University, and MFA from Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin.

This master class is part of Goshen College’s lecture series.