Biography
Kait Kerrigan is a playwright and a lyricist and composer of musicals. Originally from Kingston, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Wyoming Valley West Senior High School in Plymouth, Pennsylvania in 1999. Kait is a 2003 graduate of Barnard College with a degree in English Literature. She is the 2009 winner of the Edward Kleban Award as the most promising musical book writer in America.
She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.
Kerrigan's most recent musical works have been collaborations with Brian Lowdermilk. Their collaborations include The Woman Upstairs, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (with Zach Altman) and Wrong Number. She is currently working with Lowdermilk on TheaterworksUSA's adaptation of Henry and Mudge, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Her plays include Imaginary Love, Her Old Possessions, Tender Wars in the Green-Gold Room and Transit.
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