MK Tuomanen*
MK Tuomanen* (Sally Ride, Geraldyn Cobb) they/them, is a Jerome Fellow in Playwriting and winner of the Haas Emerging Artist Award. Off Broadway: the New Ohio (Viv in The Karamazovs) Regional: the Wilma Theater (Viola/Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Bart in Mr. Burns, Bette in Fairview) the Arden Theater (The Poet in An Illiad, Emma Goldman in Ragtime, Alison in Fun Home, Puck in Midsummer, Irina in Three Sisters) and Opera Philadelphia (Andrei Warhola in Andy: A Popera, Lise in Ne Quittez Pas), among others. Their play Peaceable Kingdom (produced with Orbiter3, a playwrights’ collective that included L Feldman) won the 2017 Philadelphia Award and their play Night Science won the Terrence McNally Award in Playwriting in 2024. Their solo work has been seen at FringeArts, Penn Radicals Conference, the Kimmel Center, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Annenberg Center and the Playwrights’ Center. They are a company member of Applied Mechanics Theater Company and an associated artist with the Bearded Ladies experimental queer cabaret. As a director, their recent collaboration with John Jarboe, Rose: You Are Who You Eat has been seen at the Guggenheim Museum, LaMama (Under the Radar) and Woolly Mammoth Theater. A New England native, this is their first time in over 20 years performing back on their home turf. www.mkplays.com