Sibyl KempsonSibyl Kempson began making her own performances at Little Theater and Dixon Place at the turn of the millennium. Her plays have been presented in the United States, Germany, Norway, and now Austria. In 2015, she launched the 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. Perf. Co. at the Martin E. Segal Center in NYC. 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens, a 3-year cycle of rituals for the Whitney Museum of American Art, recurred on every Solstice and Equinox from March 2016 to December 2018, with the curatorial guidance and support of Greta Hartenstein, and of 80+ performers and collaborators. Kempson is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for American Playwright at Mid-Career, a 2017 graduate of New Dramatists, a 2014 USA Artists Rockefeller Fellow and a 2010 MacDowell Colony Fellow. She received her MFA in Playwriting at Brooklyn College, under the instigation of Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney. She also has a BA in Theater from Bennington College. Her plays are published by 53rd State Press, in PLAY: Journal of Plays, and Performance & Art Journal (PAJ). She teaches experimental performance writing at Sarah Lawrence College, at the Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and through her company. Read More Read Less