Kirsten Childs
Kirsten J. Childs is an American playwright, librettist, and former actress.Early life and performing career
Childs was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were schoolteachers. Her younger brother is the jazz musician Billy Childs. She began her theatrical career in the late 1970s as a Broadway performer, when Bob Fosse cast her in a production of Chicago. She went on to appear in productions of Dancin', Jerry's Girls, and Sweet Charity in the 1980s. Primarily a stage actress, her one major film role was the 1989 comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil, in which she played the long-suffering sister of Richard Pryor's character.Later writing career
Childs subsequently turned to writing her own theatrical productions, beginning with the semi-autobiographical work The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, an off-Broadway musical which received an Obie Award. Her other musicals include Miracle Brothers,
Funked Up Fairy Tales,
and , a winner of the Weston Playhouse New Musical Award.
Childs has also served as an assistant professor in New York University Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program.
