Kyle Bass’s plays include Toliver & Wakeman (Franklin Stage Company), Tender Rain, Salt City Blues, POSSESSING HARRIET (Syracuse Stage, Franklin Stage Company, East Lynne Theater Company, HartBeat Ensemble) and Citizen James, or The Young Man Without a Country (Syracuse Stage). With Ping Chong, he co-authored Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo (Syracuse Stage, La MaMa), and he co-authored the screenplay for the film Day of Days. A three-time recipient of the NYFA Fellowship, Kyle is Assistant Professor of Theater at Colgate University, Resident Playwright at Syracuse Stage, and descends from people enslaved in colonial New England and the American South. He lives and writes in upstate New York where his family has lived free and owned land since 1799.
