Writer and performer: Public Works’ The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Odyssey; Kansas City Choir Boy (PROTOTYPE, A.R.T., CTG); Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons). Original music: Melancholy Play (13P), Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), On the Levee (LCT3); book/concept: Girlfriend (Berkeley, ATL, CTG). Regional: Hedwig…, I Am My Own Wife, A Number. TV: “Live from Lincoln Center” with Andrew Rannells, “Law & Order: SVU.” ... read more
Gus Kaikkonen Biography
Gus Kaikkonen’s plays and translations have been produced at Playwrights Horizons, the Mint Theatre, the Production Company, and the Juilliard School in New York; at the New End Theatre and the Theatre Museum in London, and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, England; and at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Peterborough Players and numerous regional theatres across the US. Awards include the Lecomte du Nouys Playwriting Award, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Playwriting grant, a Michigan Arts Council Award, and a MacDowell Fellowship. The American Theatre Critics Association selected his play, Time Steps, produced ... read more