I'm Libby,

Libby King is a maker of things, actor, writer, teacher, and mom. 

 

Libby has been working professionally in New York and abroad for almost 25 years. She has been a member of the acclaimed theater company The TEAM since 2006. With The TEAM, Libby has co-authored and performed in four award winning published works: Particularly in the Heartland, Architecting, Mission Drift, and Roosevelvis. She is currently creating a role in the TEAM’s upcoming show RECONSTRUCTION (Still Working but the Devil Might be Inside). 

 

Libby has worked in a lot of special places: the Public Theatre, BAM, PS 122, The Bushwick Starr, The Vineyard, Classic Stage Company, Judson Church, St. Mark’s Church, Royal Court, National Theatre, Almeida, Barbican, Traverse, Royal Lyceum, ART, ACT, the Walker, OTB, Lisbon, Coimbra, Salzburg, Glasgow, Toronto, Calgary, Edinburgh, Dublin, Galway, Baton Rouge, Ann Arbor, Philly, Nashville. Some favorite projects to note: Men on Boats (dir. Tamilla Woodard), The Laramie Project Cycle (dir. Moisés Kaufman), 27 by Abi Morgan (dir. Vicky Featherstone), Death of a Salesman with Siti Company (dir. Leon Ingulsrud), Theatre of the Mind with 600 Highwaymen and David Byrne, Uncle Vanya (dir. Rachel Chavkin), and Patti & the Kid (co-directed w/ Frank Boyd). Libby also loves to teach; she has mentored students at NYU, Playwright’s Horizons and the University of Washington and recently guided an amazing group of youth in an afterschool devising program at PS 20 in Brooklyn.

Libby’s current projects include: Mom Dance Practice, a performance collaboration with Amber Gray and Gaby Hoffman; Meditate Move Make, a generative practice co-created with Jillian Walker; and Untitled Amelia Earhart Project, an original solo play.