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Kyle Jarrow is a Brooklyn-based writer and musician. He writes for the stage as well as film and television, and he plays in several different rock bands, including The Fabulous Entourage and Sputnik Sweetheart. He won the prestigious OBIE Award at age 24 for his Off-Broadway hit A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, which has subsequently been produced all over the country. Kyle's play Armless won the Overall Excellence Award at the New York International Fringe Festival. Other plays include Love Kills, Trigger, President Harding is a Rock Star, Rip Me Open (co-writer), Hostage Song (music & lyrics), and Gorilla Man (script available from Samuel French).

Kyle's playwriting work encompasses both music theater and straight plays, and has been presented at New York Theatre Workshop, Performance Space 122, The John Houseman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Abron Arts Center, HERE Arts Center, Boston Theatre Works, New Dramatists, The Flea, The Hangar Theatre, and Dad's Garage in Atlanta among others. Kyle was a 2005-2006 Dramatists Guild Fellow. He was nominated for a 2004 Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award and a 2004 Backstage West Garland Award for A Very Merry… , and was runner-up for the 2002 Princess Grace Playwriting Award for his play Hypochondria. He was winner of the 2001 John Golden Prize. Kyle has guest-lectured at Juilliard and Pratt and done art design for the hip hop company Full Circle. He's a co-founder of the indie publishing company Awkward Press.

Kyle has developed film and TV projects for ABC, Paramount, Touchstone, and Deline Pictures among others, and his debut indie film Armless (dir. Habib Azar) is slated for release in 2009. His band The Fabulous Entourage appeared as part of the 2006 Whitney Biennial, on the Knitting Factory Mainstage, at Joe’s Pub, Viper Room, Bowery Ballroom, and with bands such as Hot Chip and We Are Scientists, and put out an album called Play Nice Now. Kyle performs on the "This Drama" EP from Sputnik Sweetheart and the album "There Will Come Soft Rains" from his synth pop project Krakow! Kyle also produced the cast album of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in religious studies.

Kyle is repped by CAA. There's a wikipedia page about him and you can see it here.

Frequently asked questions:

1) Why is this website called "The Land of Trust"?
Answer: No good reason.

2) What's up with the banner image?
Answer: It's a a detail of a painting that Kyle found discarded on the street near his apartment in Brooklyn. The rest of the piece is pretty amazing too -- it includes a pterodactyl.