MKWriter.com is the home page of Mrinalini Kamath, a writer, playwright, screenwriter, and freelance copywriter in New York City. Her work includes plays, screenplays, newsletters, print ads, e-newsletters and other e-commerce media. Mrinalini Kamath is an alumnus of Youngblood, the emerging playwrights' collective at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and her professional affiliations include the South Asian League of Artists in AMerica (SALAAM), The Ma-Yi Theatre Writers' Lab, The Dramatists Guild, and The Writers Guild of America East.

 
The Homepage of Mrinalini Kamath
playwright, screenwriter and copywriter
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Education

The Actors Studio Drama School, New School University, Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting

Johns Hopkins University, Bachelor of Arts, The Writing Seminars (departmental honors)

Awards and Honors

Semi-finalist, the Samuel French 32nd Annual Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (2007)

Semi-finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference (2007)

Semi-finalist, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Conference (2007)

Semi-finalist, Page 73 Productions (P73) Fellowship (2006)

Fellow, Maria-Theresa A. Gamboni/Nancy Quinn Fund Start the Story (Fluid Motion Theatre and Film) (2006-07)

Partial Scholarship, SLS Russia Program (2006)

Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights' Festival (2005)

Winner, First Place, East West Players "Got Laughs?" Play Competition, Los Angeles, CA (2005)

Finalist, Tribeca All Access Open Stage, NY, NY (2004)

Finalist, Jerome Fellowship, Playwrights' Center, Minneapolis, MN (2004)

University and Theatre Scholarships, ASDS, New School University (2000 - 2003)

Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Sewanee, TN (2003)

Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Contest (2003)

Finalist, Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon of One-Act Plays (2002)

Winner, Young Playwrights' Contest, Green Theatre Company, New Malden, Surrey, U.K. (2002)

Winner, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) New Play Development Workshop (2000, 2002 and 2003)

Winner, Religion and Theatre Division of the ATHE One-Act Competition (2000)

Recipient of The Louis Azrael Fellowship in Communications (1995 - awarded by the Writing Seminars Dept. at Johns Hopkins on the basis of my written portfolio)

Plays

Celestial Motions (readings)
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY, NY 2003
Queens Theatre in The Park (Immigrant Voices Project), NY, NY 2004
The Tank Theatre, NY, NY 2004
The New Perspectives Theatre Company, NY, NY 2004
South Asian League of Artists in AMerica (SALAAM) 2004
The Immigrant Theatre Project, Fresh Meadows, NY 2005
The East West Players, Los Angeles, CA (June) 2005
Silk Road Theatre Project, Chicago, IL (July) 2005
 
Hart's Palpitations (music by Matthew Anderson)
HERE, NY, NY (part of Raw Impressions Musical Theatre) 2005
 
Like Pearls Strung on a String (music by Andrew Ingkavet)
LaMaMa, NY, NY (part of Raw Impressions Musical Theatre) 2004
 
If Wishes Were Horses
Part of Asking for Trouble III, Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY, NY 2004
 
Sweet Dreams, Baby (Young Playwrights Contest Winner)
Green Theatre Company, Surrey, UK 2002
ASDS Repertory Theatre, NY, NY 2003
 
The Some of All Parts
Short and Sweet Festival, Newtown Theatre, Sydney, Australia 2003
Shorter and Sweeter, the Best of the Short and Sweet Festival
Toured: Victoria Arts Center, Melbourne, Victoria; Sydney Opera House, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2004
Performed as part of Sextet at Brown's Mart Community Arts Theatre, Darwin, The Northern Territory, Australia 2004
 
Bemused
Part of Asking for Trouble II, Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY, NY 2003
 
Bunnicuba
Part of Asking for Trouble, Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY, NY 2001
 
BOOM (full-length version: readings)
Ma-Yi Theatre LabFest, Phil Bosakowski Theatre, NY, NY July 2006
Second Generation (2G), Theatre for a New City, NY, NY October 2006
 
BOOM (reading)
South Asian League of Artists in AMerica (SALAAM) 2001
 
Strangers on a Train
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY, NY 2000
Dapper Festival, Snapper Bear Studios, NY, NY 2000
 
Hiding the Pink
Pennsylvania Playhouse, Bethlehem, PA 2000
Unity Fest 2000, NY, NY 2000
 
Roulette (reading)
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY, NY 2000
 
Confessions from the Afterlife
Love Creek Productions, NY, NY 1999
 
A Good Man is Hard to Find
SUNY Brockport, Festival of Ten 1999
Camino Real Theatre, San Juan Capistrano, CA (reading) 2000
 
To Err Is...
Vital Signs New Works Festival, Vital Theatre, NY, NY 1999

Publications

Smith and Kraus' The Best Stage Scenes of 1999 (Confessions from the Afterlife)

Smith and Kraus' The Best Stage Scenes of 2000 (Roulette)

Playscripts.com (Views)

Hot-Blooded: Monologues from the Members of Youngblood

Healthy Primates and Other Plays from the New Play Development Workshop (Strangers on a Train, The Some of All Parts and Bunnicuba)

Smith and Kraus' 30 Ten-Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors: The Best of 2002-2003 edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon (The Some of All Parts)

Smith and Kraus' Audition Arsenal: 101 Monologues by Type, 2 Minutes and Under, for Men in their 20s (excerpt from Celestial Motions)

Professional Affiliations

Alumnus of Youngblood, the emerging playwrights' collective at the Ensemble Studio Theatre

South Asian League of Artists in AMerica (SALAAM)

The Ma-Yi Theatre Writers' Lab

The Dramatists Guild

The Writers Guild of America East

 
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