The Playwright

Kasia Nikhamina is the author of the creative prose blog, The Mayor’s Hotel. “Redbeard & Domicella” is her first play. Her work has been featured at Hearth Gods, Michael Yates Crowley’s reading series in the East Village. Her one-act, “Two men be in the park,” is in production as part of a series of plays about Central Park, directed by Darragh Martin (The Invisible Company). She received the Philolexian Prize for her novella, Quixota, from Columbia University, where she earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society in 2007. She attended Stuyvesant High School, where she directed Open Mics. She has published poems and stories in Rattapallax, The Brooklyn Review, The Columbia Review, The Birch, and Poetry in Performance.