finkle’s (he/him) theatrical work includes the audio drama 1993 (produced and released by The Keen Company, Fall 2020), a visual play with music and puppets called Touch (originally commissioned by Dallas Theatre Center, 2018) and his graphic novel musical for intimate audiences entitled U R ★ (You Are Star), which was developed by the Orchard Project and produced at the American Repertory Theatre (2016) and presented at Ars Nova (2017) as well as a multitude of people’s living rooms. His plays written under his full name (Kenny Finkle) have been produced both nationally and internationally including Indoor/Outdoor, Alive and Well and Transatlantica all of which are published by Broadway Play Publishing.  His long relationship with Keen Company started in 2014 when he was commissioned to write the play Syd Arthur (published by Samuel French) for the Keen Teens program. In 2015 finkle was a member of the Keen’s Writer’s Group where 1993 was initially workshopped and in 2017 Keen received an NEA New Play Development grant to continue developing the piece.

 He received his MFA from Columbia University's Playwriting program and his BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.  He is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts (Playwriting) at Marymount Manhattan College where he oversees the Writing for the Stage concentration. In addition, he worked as a Teaching Artist for the DreamYard Project for two decades and served as Playwright Mentor for Miami Dade’s Playwright Development Program for two terms. Finkle is a member of the Dramatists Guild and an alumnus of The Good Writers’ Group. 

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https://www.mmm.edu/live/profiles/3254-kenneth-finkle