Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Boo Killebrew

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Boo Killebrew is a playwright, actress, and co-founder of CollaborationTown Theatre Company. She is a Lila Acheson Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School, an alumnus of the 2013 Emerging Writers Group at The Public, a recipient of the 2013 NYFA Fellowship, an alumnus of TerraNova's Groundbreakers, and an Affiliated Artist and Kitchen Cabinet Member with New Georges.

Her plays include Miller, Mississippi; Romance Novels for Dummies; Days Like Diamonds; The Play About My Dad; and The Momentum (NYC Fringe Festival Excellence Award for Overall Production of a Play; GLAAD Media Award Nominee). Her work has been presented at The Roundabout Theatre, The Public Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Atlantic, New York Theater Workshop, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, The Huntington Theatre Co., 59e59 Theatres, The New Ohio, The Labyrinth, and Boston Playwright's Theatre. Killebrew was an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, an Artist in Residence at NYFA, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, The New York Theater Workshop, MacDowell, Williamstown Theater Festival, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

She has received two New York Innovative Theater Awards for acting and has been nominated multiple times for both playwriting and acting. Killebrew has received two Fringe Excellence Awards and The Bette Davis Foundation Award. She is also a teaching artist with The Roundabout Theatre Company.

Studios

New Jersey

Boo Killebrew worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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