Ken’s productions include, among others, The Happiness Gym (NNPN Rolling World Premier), Halftime with Don (NNPN Rolling World Premier) seal boy (Riverside Studios, London), The Catch (The Denver Center Theatre Company), Fire in the Garden (Indiana Repertory Theatre, Warehouse Theatre, NJ Rep), The As If Body Loop (Humana Festival), Arrangements (Atlantic Theatre Company).  His devised work includes, Memorabilia (Alliance Theatre), Hominid (Out of Hand Theatre/Theatre Emory/Oerol Festival Netherlands), and Stadium 360 (Out of Hand Theatre).  

Plays in progress include Recognition (Theatre Lab production April ‘27), Spin Moves (Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, Theatre Lab, New Harmony Project), and The Water Warrior (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference).

National Awards include The L. Arnold Weissberger Award for Playwriting for Arrangements, TCG Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award for The Catch, the Fratti/Newman Political Play Contest Award for Fire in the Garden, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s Generations competition for seal boy, and South Coast Repertory’s Elizabeth George Commission for an Outstanding Emerging Playwright.

Organizations who have commissioned Ken’s work include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Arena Stage, the Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre Emory, Out of Hand Theatre, and South Coast Repertory Theatre.

Ken has been a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center, a writer-in-residence for Out of Hand Theater Company, twice had work chosen for an NNPN rolling world premiere and twice been chosen for the O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference.  He served on the board of the New Harmony Project and chaired their script selection for six years.  

Ken’s plays and monologues have been published by Samuel French, Playscripts, Smith and Kraus, Blackbird, and Applause.

Ken received his MFA from University of California, San Diego and has taught at UCSD, Emory University, Indiana University (head of MFA in Playwriting), Stony Brook University (where his work included developing storytelling and interdisciplinary programs for the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science) and, currently, as full professor of dramatic writing at Emerson College.