Carson Kreitzer is a playwright and librettist. Her projects include Capital Crime!, a play with songs set in Gilded Age New York, a play about climate change, and a collaboration on marathon dancing. She is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson Award for her musical LEMPICKA, inspired by the life and work of art deco artist Tamara de Lempicka. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.
Carson used her time at MacDowell to write the first draft of a new play about climate change, Timebomb, a commission for the American Repertory Theater in Boston, and heard it read at the end of her residency. She also began a new play inspired by the true story of covert CIA funding of abstract expressionist art during the Cold War.
