Karen Malpede, playwright/director of 19 plays, is author of Plays in Time: The Beekeeper’s Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether (Intellect, 2017). She is co-founder of Obie-award winning Theater Three Three Collaborative. “One of America’s most prominent political playwrights,” Marvin Carlson.
Drama
Fall 2010
Another Life
HANDEL is corpulent, elderly, yet strong of voice. He stands at the large window, his hack to us. He is following someone’s movement on the ground, but all that can […]
Sept/Oct 2018
Imagine: Yemen
An Introduction “Push/Pull” by Ismail Khalidi “Dinner During Yemen” by Karen Malpede “The Book of Mima” by Naomi F. Wallace The UN has described the war in Yemen as “the […]
Sept/Oct 2018
Dinner During Yemen
(NITA and RITA meet for dinner at RITA’s house. They are friends from work, among the remaining career diplomats in the State Department. NITA is more knowledgeable in the ways […]
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
Extreme Whether: Act I
Note on the text: In my play Extreme Whether (W-H-E-T-H-E-R) I am, again, using current research, not only about the science of global warming and climate change which, in and […]
Fall 2012
How to Know the Unbearable
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, saw it happen. The Hudson River met the East River in the middle of downtown Manhattan. Water roared down the streets, rushed into […]