Tony Award Winner, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and 2025-2026 Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency (SVPR) Resident Playwright Stephen Karam will be in conversation with Aly Wepplo, The Community Library’s Collection Manager, to discuss his process of writing for stage and screen before taking questions from the audience. Karam is the October Writer-in-Residence at the Ernest and Mary Hemingway House, owned and managed by the Library, as part of an annual partnership with SVPR.

Stephen Karam is the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans, Sons of the Prophet, and Speech & Debate. He is a two-time winner of the Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a recipient of an Obie Award for Playwriting. Stephen recently directed his first feature film, a version of The Humans for A24 films. He wrote a film adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull starring Annette Bening, which was released by Sony Picture Classics. His adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard premiered on Broadway as part of Roundabout’s 2016 season. Recent honors include the inaugural Horton Foote Playwriting Award, the inaugural Sam Norkin Drama Desk Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League Award, and Hull-Warriner Award. Stephen is an Assistant Professor at The New School where he teaches playwriting. He is a graduate of Brown University and grew up in Scranton, PA.