Stephen Karam is the author of The Humans and Sons of the Prophet, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the recipient of the 2012 Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and Hull-Warriner Awards for Best Play. Other plays include columbinus and Speech & Debate, the inaugural production of Roundabout Underground (N.Y. Theatre Workshop).

For film, Karam has written screenplay adaptations of Chekhov’s The Seagull and Speech & Debate.

Karam is a MacDowell Colony fellow, and the recipient of the inaugural Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Drama Desk Award.