Donna Kaz
Blue Point, NY
Playwriting
Donna Kaz is a multi-genre writer who is also known as the Guerrilla Girl, “Aphra Behn.” Her plays/musicals have been produced around the world including "Stamina" (American Renaissance Theatre/Best Ten Minute Plays of 2019 Smith and Kraus); "JOAN" (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) “Food, the Musical” (Best New Musical Award, William Patterson University) "Performing Tribute 9/11" (Harlem Stage); "Feminists Are Funny, Pride edition" (Lincoln Center); "The History of Women in Theatre: Condensed" (Women Playwrights International, Dramalabet, Sweden); "Silence Is Violence" (Women’s Arts International Festival, Kendal UK) "If You Can Stand the Heat: The History of Women and Food" (City of Women Festival Slovenia). She is the author of the memoir, “UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour,” named best nonfiction prose book of 2017 by Devil’s Kitchen. Kaz has received the Yoko Ono Courage Award for the Arts, the Skowhegan medal, and was named a “Notable Women in American Theatre” by the League of Professional Theatre Women/CUNY-TV. Her essays have appeared in Variety, Theatre Topics, Ms. Magazine, Bitch Media, Bust, Alternet, Role Reboot, The Dramatist, Lilith, The Sun, Gagibi, and Women in Hollywood. Kaz is the recipient of Venus Theatre’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Jerry Kaufman Playwriting Award, Ian MacMillan Writing Award, Boundary Stone Screenwriting Award and residencies at Ragdale, Yaddo, Ucross, Djerassi, Blue Mountain, Wurlitzer, Mesa Refuge and Marble House. She is a 2022/23 Winterthur Research Fellow and lives on Long Island. @donnakaz