Patricia Krahnke’s plays include ASYLUM OR MADNESS & THE WHOLE THING THERE; HUMID OR THE RAPE OF THE ARTIST'S WIFE; ROBBI AT THE CONFLUENCE; and MERRY CHRISTMAS, BEAUREGARD!.
Her work has been developed at Chicago Dramatists, Telling Humans Playwright Studio, Goddard College, and Jerwood Center UK. Her plays have received readings in New York, London, and Chicago. Awards include Hinton Battle National Multicultural New Play Competition finalist (top eight out of 3000 submissions) for her play HUMID.
She is a founding member of Telling Humans Playwright Studio in Chicago; the founder and producer of the Telling Humans New-Play Reading Festival at Chicago Dramatists; and a member of Chicago Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild, and the Playwrights Center.
Patricia has taught playwriting in New York City, and is presently a teaching assistant to playwright Emilio Williams, whose play ¡Bernarda!, premiered in fall of 2023 at Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre. She will be assisting his Paris Playwriting Intensive this May.
Krahnke earned her MFA in Playwriting from Goddard College.
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