Returning as Co-Artistic Director and Apprentice Director of BTPR, Kenneth Prestininzi is also the Acting Chair of Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. AT BTRP he has directed boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and In Spite of the Devil by Andy Bragen. He has written and directed new plays for the last twenty years in Brighton (England), Cambridge, Chicago, Edinburgh, Kalamazoo, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York City, Philadelphia, Prague, Providence, and San Francisco and has received theatre awards from the American College Theatre Festival, California Arts Council, Djerassi Artist Program, Gerbode Foundation, Goethe Institute, LEF Foundation, Millay Arts Colony, National Endowment of the Humanities, Rockerfeller Foundation and the San Francisco Cultural Equity Office. His acclaimed play Chaste was recently produced at Trap Door Theatre in Chicago (Kate Hendrickson, director), where previously his play Beholder received a Joseph Jefferson Award for best new play. He has continued his creative working relationship with playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and workshopped his new play The Totalitarians at New Dramatists (New York) and directed T.I.C. in San Francisco (Encore Theatre at the Magic Theatre). He is an affiliated artist of Sleeping Weazel (based in Boston) and has been resident artist at Perishable Theatre (Providence), artistic director of West Coast Playwrights (San Francisco,) and treasurer of Performance Studies international. His original plays include: A License to Love, AmeriKafka, As American As, Beholder, Chaste, The Monkey from Zanzibar, Ria and Bobby, and Two Boys and a Camera, and the chamber operas Ariadne, The Response and Servitude of a King.
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