Kristen Kosmas is a writer and performer. She has had works commissioned by Performance Space 122, Seattle University's SITE Specific, Dixon Place, and the New City Theater. Her plays include Hello Failure, H-O-R-S-E, Chapter of Accidents, The Mayor of Baltimore, Anthem, and Palomino. She is the writer and performer of four critically acclaimed solo shows, The Scandal!, Slip, Again, and Blah Blah Fuckin Blah, which have been performed at numerous venues in New York, Austin, Boston, Seattle, and Chicago. Forthcoming publications include Hello Failure (Ugly Duckling Presse), This From Cloudland (Play A Journal of Plays), and The Mayor of Baltimore & Anthem (53rd State). Kristen is a member of the Brooklyn-based collective, the Ladies Auxiliary Playwriting Team.