Jack Karp, Playwright

Jack Karp's plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and across the country as well as in Canada. Incendiary Agents was produced at the New Ohio Theatre in New York City in 2013 and the Morgan Opera House in 2018.  Irreversible, which was developed at the Great Plains Theatre Conference and the Ashland New Plays Festival, was produced by Red Fern Theatre in New York in 2015 and Counterweight Theatre Lab in Colorado in 2018. Jack's plays have also appeared in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, Luna Stage's New Moon Festival, and the New York International Fringe Festival, for which he helped conceive and write the interactive technology-driven show, The Photo Album. Jack has also won the David Mamet Playwrighting Competition at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Contest, Best Play at MadLab Theatre's Divide & Conquer Festival, and Best Play at the Long Island City One Act Festival, among other awards. Jack has an M.F.A. in creative writing from American University, is a founding member of Crosstown Playwrights, the Nylon Fusion Writer's Collective, and The Story Gym, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.