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Kia Corthron's play, Slide Glide the Slippery Slope, premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville's 2003 Humana Festival and was subsequently produced by the Mark Taper Forum. The Venus de Milo Is Armed was produced by Alabama Shakespeare Festival in February 2003. Other plays include Breath, Boom (London's Royal Court Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre and elsewhere), Force Continuum (Atlantic Theater Company), Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (New York Stage and Film, Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE, Yale Rep, London's Donmar Warehouse Theatre), Seeking the Genesis (Goodman Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club), Digging Eleven (Hartford Stage Company), Life by Asphyxiation (Playwright's Horizons), Wake Up Lou Riser (Delaware Theatre Company), Come Down Burning (American Place Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre), and Cage Rhythm (Sightlines/The Point in the Bronx). Kia is commissioned to write plays for Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Guthrie Theater. Awards include the AT&T On Stage Award, the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, the Mark Taper Forum's Fadiman Award, National Endowment for the Arts/TCG, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, and the Callaway Award. Kia is a resident of New Dramatists.