Sherry Kramer is an American playwright who was born in Springfield, MO. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, teaches playwriting at Bennington College, and regularly teaches in the M.F.A. programs of The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin and the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop. Kramer’s intent is for her plays to invite the audience to find new ways to understand who we are as a nation and how we might find our way back to being generous, fair-minded people. She is the recipient of an NEA, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a McKnight National Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and commissions from the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre Project, and the Moscow Art Theatre/UI International Writers Program. Her plays have been produced and shown at festivals across the United States and abroad.
Sherry Kramer
Studios
Phi Beta
Sherry Kramer worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…