The Program in Theater’s Music Theater Lab presents a conversation with musical theater performer and playwright Kirsten Childs, as part of the Fall 2015 Speaker Series. The conversation is on Wednesday, October 28 and will run from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. in Woolworth Hall Room 105 on the Princeton campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Kirsten Childs began her musical theater career as a performer, but has gained wider recognition in the past two decades as a playwright and lyricist in musical theater. She won an Obie for her off-Broadway musical The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000). She also wrote the book, music, and lyrics for the off-Broadway musical Miracle Brothers (2005). Childs is the co-writer of Sundiata, Lion King of Mali, and she adapted the 19th-century poem, The Highwayman, for the McCarter Theater in Princeton. As a performer, Childs co-starred with Chita Rivera in the musical Chicago, co-starred with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in the film See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and performed on Broadway in Dancin’, Jerry’s Girls, and Sweet Charity. She has also written songs for jazz singer Dianne Reeves and for children’s television shows including PBS’s The Electric Company and Sesame Street. A native of Los Angeles, Childs graduated from New York University’s Musical Theater Writing Program. Engaging in the conversation with Childs will be Wolf, along with Robert Lee and Randall Eng, the three of whom are co-teaching another fall course, “Introduction to Musical Theater Writing.”
The series is funded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Music Theater Lab.
