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Kyle Jarrow is a writer and musician based in New York City. He writes for the stage as well as film and television and he plays in the rock bands Super Mirage and Sky-Pony. He won an OBIE Award at age 24 for his Off-Broadway hit play A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, which has subsequently been produced all over the country. Kyle wrote the film Armless, adapted from his play of the same name, which was an official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2010. Other stage plays include Love Kills, Trigger, President Harding is a Rock Star, Rip Me Open (co-writer), Hostage Song (music & lyrics), Gorilla Man (script available from Samuel French), and Whisper House (with Tony-winner Duncan Sheik, record now available from RCA/Victor). Kyle appeared as a performer in both Gorilla Man and President Harding is a Rock Star. With his former art-rock band The Fabulous Entourage, he appeared in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

Kyle has developed television projects for CW, ABC, Lion's Gate, Fox TVS, and Deline Pictures among others, and is currently working on a feature project for MTV Films. Kyle's playwriting work encompasses both music theater and straight plays, and has been presented at The Old Globe, New York Theatre Workshop, Performance Space 122, New York Stage & Film, The John Houseman Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Abron Arts Center, HERE Arts Center, The Hangar Theatre, and Dad's Garage among others. He's particularly known for incorporating rock and pop music into the theater, a topic that he's written and spoken about widely. 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, and was runner-up for the 2002 Princess Grace Playwriting Award. He was winner of the 2001 John Golden Prize. Kyle has guest-lectured at Juilliard, USC Film School, Pratt, and the Actors Studio. He's a co-founder of the indie publishing company Awkward Press.

From 2003 to 2008, Kyle co-founded and led the band The Fabulous Entourage (now on semi-permanent hiatus), which appeared as part of the Whitney Biennial, toured the East and West Coasts, and opened for such groups as Hot Chip and We Are Scientists.

Kyle is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in religious studies. He's represented by CAA and Madhouse Entertainment. 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: The name came from a (frankly pretty stupid) inside joke with a couple friends.

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