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Sibyl Kempson

Sibyl Kempson

Assistant Professor — Theatre Arts & Performance
 
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Professional Preparation

MFA - Playwriting
City University of New York - Brooklyn College - 2007
BA - Drama - Acting, Costume Design
Bennington College - 1995

Research Areas

Acting & Performance, Directing & Devising, Playwriting & Performance Writing, Formal Aesthetics for Contemporary Performance Practice, Semiotics of Theatre & Culture, Creative Flow State, Scandinavian Drama in Translation, Self-Production, Practical Animism, Co-presence in Live Performance, Green Screen & Remote Performance

Publications

The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S.  2025 - Play script
Invisible Horizon: A Religious Pamphlet  2020 - Pamphlet
Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag  2015 - Play script
The Secret Death of Puppets (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or) Puppets Die in Secret 2012 - Play scripts
Restless Eye  2012 - publications
Ich, KürbisGeist  2012 - Play script
Crime or Emergency  2009 - Play script
Potatoes of August  2009 - Play script

Awards

Nominee, Herb Alpert Award [2023, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2014] -
Ibsen Scope Award, A BEE IN THE HEART OF HER - [2022]
Best Animation, MAERY S. - LA Independent Film Channel Festival [2022]
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, MAERY S. - Melbourne Independent Film Festival [2022]
Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Playwright in Mid-Career - PEN America [2019]
Fellowship - New York Foundation for the Arts [2016]
Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theater, MAERY S. - New Dramatists [2016]
Rockefeller Fellowship - USA Artists [2014]
Nominee, Doris Duke Impact Award - [2014]
Fellowship - MacDowell [2010]

Appointments

Program Head, Playwriting MFA
City University of New York - Brooklyn College [2023–2025]
Visiting Assistant Professor, Advisor for the Helen Holborn Gray Fellowship
Bryn Mawr College [2022–2023]
Affiliate Artist Faculty, Graduate Thesis Advisor
Sarah Lawrence College [2014–2023]
Instructor, Mentor, Creative Consultant
7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co. [2019–2025]
Mentoring Artist
Atlantic Center for the Arts [2021–2021]
Visiting / Teaching Artist
Victorian College of the Arts / University of Melbourne [2017–2020]
Lecturer
The New School, Eugene Lang College [2013–2013]
Lecturer
City University of New York - Brooklyn College [2006–2012]
Instructor
Fifth Avenue Committee [2006–2009]
ESL, GED-Prep, Adult Basic Education, Family Literacy
Lecturer
Bloomfield College [2007–2007]