Jeremy Kamps

Jeremy Kamps is an award-winning playwright produced and developed by Esperance Theater Company (NYC), Company Cypher (NYC), Ugly Rhino (NYC), The Fountain Theater (LA), The Public Theater (NYC), New York Theatre Workshop, Spectrum Theater Ensemble, (PVD)  Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and The Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Poland). His play, Skin to Skin, is scheduled for production with Houses on the Moon Theater Company(NYC) for 2025. Other plays include, Breitwisch Farm, Gutting, What it Means to Disappear Here and Bridgetower’s Sonata. His debut musical, Thirteenth Point, was commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, developed at Joe’s Pub (NYC) and presented at The Geffen Playhouse (LA). He was a member of The Public Theater Emerging Writers Fellowship, a current Houses on the Moon Fellow, Playwright-in-Residence for Esperance Theater Company and Spectrum Theater Ensemble and New York Theater Workshop “usual suspect.” Distinctions include finalist for P73 Fellowship, William Soroyan Human Rights Play Award,  Ruby Lloyd Apsey Play on Race Relations Award, La Maison James Baldwin residency, Jerome Foundation Award and Goldberg Prize. He received the Theatre Communications Group travel grant in 2015 and 2019 to develop a project in Kenya where he conducted drama workshops as part of his research for a new play on flower farms. Kamps has facilitated drama and writing workshops around the world and for all ages. MFA: New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Dramatic Writing.