Stephen Karam's plays Sons of the Prophet, a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American family, and The Humans were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012 and 2016, respectively.
13 Facts About Stephen Karam
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The Humans won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, and Karam wrote and directed a film adaptation of the play, released in 2021.
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Stephen Karam grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in a Lebanese-American family of Maronite Catholic faith.
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Stephen Karam graduated in 2002 from Brown University, then apprenticed at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.
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Stephen Karam's plays have appeared both Off-Broadway and on Broadway.
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Stephen Karam was a three-time winner in The Blank Theatre's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival in 1997,1998 and 1999.
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Stephen Karam is the Writer in Residence at the 2016 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut.
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Stephen Karam prepared an adaptation of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, which was presented on Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre in a limited engagement at the American Airlines Theatre from September 15,2016, officially on October 16 to December 4.
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Stephen Karam's humor is notable, and he can be funny in remarkably few words.
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Stephen Karam says he's drawn to 'the strangeness in people' who live in a state of dread; it's the psychological realism of the everyday, it seems, that fires his imagination.
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Stephen Karam received the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award in 2015, which includes a $25,000 award as a commission.
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Stephen Karam received the inaugural Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Drama Desk Award for Sons of the Prophet.
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Stephen Karam received the Horton Foote Playwriting Award, awarded by the Dramatists Guild, in February 2016.