Kirsten Greenidge
Kirsten Greenidge is an American playwright. Her plays are known for their realistic language and focus on social issues such as the intersectionality of race, gender, and class. Her sister is the historian Kerri Greenidge. Career Greenidge has said that she decided she wanted to be a playwright after seeing August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone at age 12. She attended Wesleyan University and the University of Iowa's Playwright Workshop. From 2007 to 2009, she was part of the Huntington Theatre Company's Playwriting Fellows cohort. From 2006 to 2013, Greenidge was a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists in New York City She is currently associate professor at Boston University, teaching playwriting and mentoring undergraduate students. In 2016, Greenidge began a three-year term as the Playwright in Residence at Boston's Company One Theatre through the National Playwright Residency Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by HowlRound. Notable works Milk Like Sugar Milk Like Sugar is a coming of age play about 16 year old Annie who makes a pregnancy pact with her friends. As she dreams about having a baby and leading a happy life, she soon learns teen pregnancy is not all it's made to