July 2010
Writer-in-residence at the Lark/New York Stage and Film.
June 2010
Artist-in-residence at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, NY.
May 2010
Writes screenplay for GET THE BALANCE RIGHT, a short film as part of the 48 FILM PROJECT in Boston. Named one of the best films of the festival.
April 2010
Closed reading of THE AWAKE at the Lark in New York City, directed by Trip Cullman.
March 2010
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ESKIMOS ran at Open Circle Theatre in Seattle, WA (Directed by Gary Zinter) for four weeks. Reviews and press: Seattle Times, The Stranger and Seattle Gay News.
THE AWAKE was read at the Theatre @ Boston Court in Los Angeles as part of their PLAY/ground Annual Reading Series. The reading was directed by Jessica Kubzansky.
December 2009
SENSE OF AN ENDING was read at New York Theatre Workshop on Thursday December 10th at 7pm. The reading was directed by Chay Yew.
I (HEART) KANT was produced by Collaborative Arts at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick (Directed by Daniel Swern).
November 2009
NIBBLER was produced by Theatre of Note in Los Angeles, CA (Directed by Mark Seldis). For an article about the show, go here.
August 2009
Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.
The Avon Barksdale releases THE HAPPY SAD mini-lp. Available on iTunes, amazon.com, eMusic, and Lala. A limited edition CD release is available from CDBaby.
July 2009
THE HAPPY SAD was seen at the Public Theatre in New York as part of the Summer Play Festival. The show was directed by Trip Cullman and ran from Tuesday Juy 21 to Sunday July 26 at the Martinson Theater @ The Public. The play features Christopher Abbott, Ari Graynor, Sue Jean Kim, Maulik Pancholy, Heidi Schreck, Michael Stahl-David and Eddie Kaye Thomas. Photos and more information can be found here.
SENSE OF AN ENDING was read at the Williamstown Theatre Festival on Friday July 24 at 3pm. The reading was directed by Sam Gold. It was a celebration of the play winning the 2008 Weissberger Award.
Recent Interviews: here and here.
April - May 2009
Short play PSEUDOEPHEDRINE was produced as part of Collaboraction's 2009 SKETCHBOOK Festival at the Building Stage in Chicago, directed by Bea Bosco.
THE AWAKE was read as part of The Management Company's Salon Series at Under St. Mark's in New York City on Sunday May 11, directed by Jose Zayas.
Ken is featured in the May-June issue of American Theatre magazine.
February 2009
SENSE OF AN ENDING Is named the winner of the 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Award given by the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The Award goes to the best unproduced new American play. The play was nominated by The Huntington Theatre in Boston.
January - February 2009
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ESKIMOS ran at Stage Left in a production by The Mill Theater (Chicago, IL).
Listen to an piece on NPR about the play here.
The new full-length version of THE HAPPY SAD was read on Friday February 6th at Playwrights' Horizons. The reading was directed by Craig Lucas.
October 2008
The Avon Barksdale score the music for our drummer Jeff Stern's film THE THRILLA IN WASILLA. Check it out here. And oh, GO OBAMA!
September 2008
Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.
Reading of SENSE OF AN ENDING at Urban Stages (NYC).
July - August 2008
TECMESSA (a footnote on envy) was produced as part of SEVEN DEADLY SINS at Rude Guerrilla (Orange, CA).
THE HAPPY SAD was read at the Zero Arrow Theatre/ART at Harvard University.
April 2008
The Huntington Theater (Boston, MA) presented a reading of SENSE OF AN ENDING as part of their 2008 Breaking Ground Festival of new American plays.
March - April 2008
The Flea (NYC) produced the early one-act version of THE HAPPY SAD as part of a double bill with Tommy Smith's The Break-Up. Previews began Thursday March 6th. Opening night was Saturday March 22nd. Due to audience demand, the show was extended and closed April 26. Directed by Sherri Kronfeld. With Felipe Bonilla, Havilah Brewster, Jane Elliot, Pete Forester, Stephen O'Reilly, John Russo and Annie Scott.
January 2008
TECMESSA (a footnote on envy) presented as part of Little Theatre @ Dixon Place (NYC).
December 2007
Named one of the 2007 nytheatre.com's People of the Year for his contrbutions to New York theatre.
November 2007
Named one of the 2007-2009 Playwriting Fellows at the Huntington Theater in Boston.
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