Kira Obolensky

Kira Obolensky is an American playwright and author based in Minneapolis. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997 in the field of drama and performance art. She won a Bush Foundation artist's fellowship in 1999.

Life
Obolensky was born in New York to a Russian father and an Australian mother. She has two younger sisters. Obolensky was raised in Texas and New Orleans. She completed a degree at Williams College.

Obolensky adapted Holocaust survivor Sabina Zimering's memoir into a play in 2010.

Obolensky lives in South Minneapolis and is married to sculptor Irve Dell.