https://www.kristianohare.com/home daily 1.0 2024-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1584196701330-KX8ORNKAG6BI4RP4UH1M/image-asset.jpeg https://www.kristianohare.com/plays daily 0.75 2022-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1585611113076-VMHO21BXWSALC7EW45J0/you+could+see+the+pieces+fitting+together_lg.jpg Plays A darkly comic play on food and relationships and our relationship to food. While avoiding the impending doom of the outside world, a group of white liberal hipsters who indulge in a six-course farm-to-table meal of locally grown vegetables, ethically raised organic meats, and sustainably caught seafood. This play examines the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and human nature, its primitive instincts, unspeakable secrets, and inconceivable actions. Semifinalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2022. Selected, NAPSeries, Normal Ave Theater, NYC, January 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1585604906992-L1CJCYXO75T952JRPFTC/you+discovered+affection+for+something+you+had+not+known+you+liked_SM.jpg Plays - Stinging nettles. Restorative elixirs. Urban foraging. Not all online deals are worth redeeming -- or so a couple learns in this darkly funny guide to today's sustainable lifestyles. Selected, Detroit New Works Festival, Outvisible Theatre Company, 2018. Selected, Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, Lamda Literary, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1585610871390-5UYZQ6JU1KWDFLXDU7RQ/you+dispersed+anxiety.jpg Plays - Fifteen milligrams of Lavender for exhaustion. Seventeen hundred milligrams of Lemon Balm to eliminate the heart palpitations. Twelve hundred milligrams Kava Kava to help with the anxiety. With visions of Walt Whitman and a jock-strap wearing bed bug, the main character Stagger travels in and out of memories, hoping to gain the skills needed to confront the past and embrace his future. Selected, New York International Fringe Festival, NYC, 2013. Finalist, Project Playwright, Sanguine Theatre Co., NYC, 2013. Selected, Great Plains Conference Playlab, Omaha, NE 2012. Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2012. Semifinalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2012. Gwen Frostic Graduate Playwriting Award, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1585611033095-N60NR9Z41C8BRM532RXF/Screenshot%2B2020-02-17%2Bat%2B9.25.59%2BPM.jpg Plays - It's a long way from the confessional to the glory hole to the podium -- or is it? The Gay American is a merciless satire that pushes past the ghost-written biographies and well-groomed Oprah appearances to find the tabloid "truth" behind the nation's first gay governor Jim McGreevey and his long-in-denial wife Dina. Encompassing everything from The Boss to Madonna, from post-partum depression to self-mutilation, from chamomile tea to crystal meth, the McGreeveys' public record becomes all-too-private fiction in this hilariously skewed comedy. Production, Ruckus Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2010. Production, Whole Art Theatre, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008. Reading, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1585611061279-N5Y1TD54RESWYXQMFMUN/you+could+appreciate+the+challenge.jpg Plays https://www.kristianohare.com/poetryfictionnonfiction daily 0.75 2023-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1585604291357-7B9ABE38BYY0K3PFN9Q0/something+encouraged+you.jpg Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction https://www.kristianohare.com/news daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1581959680135-H3HCSAAADD7JGCIVT1IJ/IMG_20200205_094311_615.jpg News https://www.kristianohare.com/teachingcv daily 0.75 2023-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1585604691220-EUS0GB51LXCWBXH4RJVC/you%2Bdiscovered%2Bsafety.jpg Teaching CV https://www.kristianohare.com/reviews daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1582856827125-J0JFL3UCV1A1LW415NWH/likepoetryflyer.jpg Reviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e265d7db7e5190236f536a9/1582856930243-3JMHTTR5FDCPID1PDBWM/24731_401176117416_433363_n.jpg Reviews - "Their production will sell out every night, if there is any justice in this world. The Gay American is top-drawer, savage American comedy. Its script is an outrageous, non-stop interrogation of the value of gay identity politics at its intersection with its closeted presence on the national political scene.” -Paige Listerud, Chicago Theater Beat “… Some of the fouler jism jokes O’Hare employs to this end have a kitschy, John Waters merriment, and the generally enthused cast clearly delights in them.” -Christopher Shea, Time Out Chicago “… Allison Shoemaker’s raucous production for the Ruckus Theater presents all the corruption and flimflammery with gusto…” -Zac Thompson, Chicago Reader …the ensemble’s game; Freddie Donovan’s rent boy/page is a good sport in platform boots, roller blades and tap shoes; Julie Cowden and Stevie Chaddock bring a painful vulnerability to their wife and daughter roles and Neal Starbird works McGreevey’s white-bread sleaziness. Director Allison Shoemaker drives the pacing, which keeps us from drowning in dishonesty.” -Lisa Buscani, NewCity Chicago “…Kristian O'Hare’s vulgar new play, "The Gay American,” leaves one disgusted and numb.“ -Sarah Terez Rosenblum, Centerstage