Stephen Karam

Stephen Karam (born ) is an American playwright, screenwriter and director. His plays Sons of the Prophet, a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American family, and The Humans were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012 and 2016, respectively. The Humans won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, and Karam wrote and directed a film adaptation of the play, released in 2021. Biography Karam grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in a Lebanese-American family of the Maronite faith. He graduated in 2002 from Brown University, then apprenticed at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, where he met Arian Moayed (who is appearing in The Humans) and P. J. Paparelli, who collaborated with him on columbinus and directed The Humans in Chicago. Karam teaches at The New School. His plays have appeared both Off-Broadway and on Broadway. Karam was a three-time winner in The Blank Theatre's Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival in 1997, 1998 and 1999. His first play A Work of Art ('97) starred Robert Pine and Janet Carroll, Agnes ('98) starred Alyson Hannigan in her stage debut, and Lies in the Eye of the Beholder ('99) starred Richard Ruccollo. His musical Emma won the Kennedy Center American College Theater (KCACTF) Musical Theatre Award in 2001.