Kristin Idaszak

Kristin Idaszak is a playwright, essayist, cultural critic, and dramaturg whose recent work examines the climate crisis, gender, and disability. She has been a two-time Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow and held the Shank Fellowship at the Goodman Theatre. Her play Second Skin won the Kennedy Center's Paula Vogel and Jean Kennedy Smith playwriting awards. She teaches dramaturgy at The Theatre School at DePaul University and co-founded Cloudgate Theatre in Chicago. Her essay "In the Shape of a Monster" appeared in Multiplicity Magazine's Issue 5, Out of Control. Her essays and criticism have also appeared in The American Scholar, Fourth Genre, and HowlRound.