Carolyn Kras2025-27 Screenwriting Fellow

Carolyn Kras is a screenwriter/TV writer/playwright who has developed projects for 20th TV Studio, Escape Artists, Welle, Tiara Blu Films, and more. She was a staff writer on the web series CORNUCOPIA. Her awards include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation First Place Screenwriting Award, Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters Lab Selection, ISA's List of Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch, Visionary Playwright Award, New York Television Festival Official Selection, Plume & Pellicule Screenwriting Award, Middlebury Script Lab Selection, Hearst Creative Artist Fellowship, Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, and a Fulbright to the United Kingdom. She has been a writer-in-residence at Ucross Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, Ragdale Foundation, and Anderson Center at Tower View. Her plays have been produced or developed at The Road Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, Theatre 40, Pacific Resident Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Stage Left Theatre, Centenary Stage Company, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, Williams Street Rep, Theater Masters, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and more. She has a B.A. in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University.