Kirsten Childs is the writer of The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin(Playwrights) Obie, Kleban, Audelco, Richard Rodgers and Gilman Gonzalez-Falla awards; Rockefeller and Jonathan Larson Grants; Lucille Lortel, NAACP nominations, Drama Desk nominations. Fly, a musical with playwright Rajiv Joseph and composer Bill Sherman (Dallas Theatre Center). Miracle Brothers (Vineyard) NEA, Larson grants, Meet The Composer and Kitty Carlisle Hart Musical Theatre awards, Sundance Ucross. Funked Up Fairy Tales (Barrington, Sundance, MTC, NAMT, Depot Theatre). Wishes – book, and Believe – book, original song (Disney Theatricals/Disney Cruise Lines). American Songbook series (Lincoln Center). New Electric Company (songwriter). House Of Flowers(adaptation) City Center Encores! The Princess And The Black Eyed Pea (San Diego Rep). Wasted (George Street). If You Give A Mouse A Cookie [Amazing Grace] (Theatreworks/USA). Guggenheim Museum Works & Process classical compositions (poet Paul Muldoon and NEA chairman/poet Dana Gioia). Music design, Doris to Darlene (Playwrights). Playwrights Horizons commission with playwright Lynn Nottage & Steve Cosson (The Civilians). Dramatists Guild Council, Dramatists Guild Fund. Professor, Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, Tisch School Of The Arts, NYU. Theatre Development Fund Open Doors Mentor

The Radiant, NY premiere, winter, ‘13. World Premiere, ‘11 in FLA; TCG/Edgerton Foundation Award, Sloan Science Foundation commission and  their “Production Enhancement Grant.”
All Through the Night, NY premiere ‘10, “Joseph Jefferson” nomination: “Best New Chicago Play” in World Premiere.
A Piece of My Heart: NY premiere–Manhattan Theater Club;  listed 43rd among Goodreads’ “Best 150 Plays by American Authors.”  Named by Vietnam Vets, Inc., “Most enduring play in America on Vietnam.” Barbara Deming Award , Kittriedge Foundation Award, “ Susan Blackburn Prize(finalist).”
Open Admissions, Broadway:  1 Tony nomination, 2 Drama Desk nominations, a Theater World Award.  NY Times pick: among “10 Best Plays of the Year”, The Dramatists Guild’s Hull-Warriner Award.  TV adaptation starred Estelle Parsons and Jane Alexander.
Clarence Darrow’s Last Trial: Carbonell nomination, “Best New Play of the Year in Florida.”
Co-editor ‘09 : Political Plays by American Women — honoree  “NY Coalition of Professional Women Arts and Media”.

Major grants: The Guggenheim, 3 NEA’S, NY Found. for the Arts.
Major affiliations: Dramatists Guild Foundation; Ensemble Studio Theater; League of Professional Theater Women; Playwright’s Unit, Actors Studio; PEN; Writers Guild East, The Author’s Guild.