Claire Kiechel, (Playwright) lives in Washington Heights, New York. She spends her days amassing student loans and getting her MFA in Playwriting at the New School for Drama. She graduated from Amherst College where she received the Alpha Delta Phi Fellowship for her play Obituary Mambo. Last year, three of her plays Double Rainbow All the Way (dir. Brad Raimondo), Kissing Ronald Reagan (dir. Whitney Aronson), and Radical Methods for Radical Heartbreak (dir. Christie Marie Clark) were produced at the New School for Drama. She has worked with Ars Nova, New York Stage and Film, The Exchange, and Yarn Films. She is a member of the writing group, The Hindsight Collective. Upcoming projects include: GPS for Lonely People, Face Off: The Musical. Thank you to all the people who have put time and effort into this project, and special thanks to Brad Raimondo who called this play into being.

SIX QUESTIONS for Claire Kiechel

HOMETOWN: I grew up all over as a kid, but I consider New York my home town now.

FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR: Mango Sorbet

IF I WERE A SEA CREATURE I would be a beluga whale.  Obviously.

FIRST WRITING GIG: The first play I wrote was when I was 10. It took place after the world ended and God was a character. He was dressed like Santa Claus and kind of an asshole. I got in trouble with my mother and my best friend's mother banned her from my house because of it. It took me a while to write another play after that.

MOST EMBARRASSING REHEARSAL MOMENT:  Going into a quiet rehearsal room with my cell phone beeping loudly, I thought it was a fire alarm so made no motion to stop it. When I was asked about it, I responded, "It's campus wide," which became my new nickname.