This Is Your Mixtape

9. I Am Still Here. [Kari Bentley-Quinn.]


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Kari Bentley-Quinn is a

playwright based in New York City. She
grew up in Connecticut, but adopted New York as home just in time to witness
the September 11th attacks. Kari's plays have been produced and presented in
New York, Chicago and Dallas. She's a co-founder of Mission to
(dit)Mars, a theater company based in the
beautiful borough of Queens, championing new play development. Kari has an MFA
in Playwriting from Hunter College. She's won the Rita and Burton Goldberg
Award, and was a nominee for the Doric Wilson Playwriting Award. Kari and
Michael discuss childhood optimism, musical improvisation, suicide, terrorism,
polyrhythms, having a calling, why immigration is awesome, and making friends
in your thirties.

Kari’s Five Songs.
  • I’m a Believer by the
  • Monkees.
  • Marianne by Tori Amos.
  • Toxic by Britney
  • Spears.
  • Sawdust and Diamonds by
  • Joanna Newsom.
  • New York by St.
  • Vincent.
    Show Notes.

    Youth Dew.

    Kari's personal essay about the sudden passing of her grandmother.

    Song Exploder 114: St. Vincent. St.

    Vincent goes in depth on the writing and recording of “New York.”

    Kari on Twitter,

    Instagram, and the
    web.

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