Playwright:Krista Knight

Clementine and the Cyber Ducks

A dark comedic riff on the classic folk song set during the 1849 Gold Rush and the 1990s dot.com bubble. Clementine moves to California with her father to strike it rich. As Clementine gets sucked into a series of schemes and scams, the world turns into an ecstatic American Dreamscape full of shotgun-wielding sisters, angry miners, and a steampunk chorus of deviant ducks.

Biography

Krista Knight is a first-year MFA Playwright. Her work has been staged at the Ashland New Plays Festival, Dixon Place, The Women's Work Theatre and the Fringe Festival in New York, LiveGirls! in Seattle, The Attic Theatre in Los Angeles, Harvest Theatre in Toledo, Panoply in Huntsville, Alabama, Goshen College in Indiana, the Pan Theatre in San Francisco, and the Bus Barn Stage Company in Los Altos. It has been developed at Abingdon and the PossEble Theater in New York, The O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, First Stage in Los Angeles, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Penobscot Theatre in Maine, and the Magic Theatre and the Playwrights' Center in San Francisco. Krista has been in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Interplay in Australia, the UCROSS Foundation, Yaddo, and MacDowell. She was the winner of the 2005 Southwestern States National Playwriting Contest and a finalist for the 2006 and 2007 Heideman award and the 2008 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Krista is a graduate of Brown University and the 2007 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. She has a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU and is currently working on a commission for The Assembly in New York. www.KristaKnight.com