"Ken is a real original. Anyone interested in (really) new theatre should be aware of him."--Mac Wellman, OBIE-Award Winning Playwright

I KANT

"I KANT is a nimble, knowing one-act with an admirable script." --New York Times

"I KANT is obscenely funny and deeply disturbing." --Los Angeles Times

"Four stars. Director McCullough and Urban are a smart match." --Time Out

"I KANT is a splendidly adroit play. The result is surprisingly meaningful." --Backstage

"To understand Ken Urban's I KANT is to know what it means to have a sublime experience. Sublime can mean many things, but for the purposes of this New Jersey-set tale of four disparate women, the word suggests converting something inferior into something of higher worth. ... The beauty of Urban's play is that it transposes Kant's theory of the four types of judgment (agreeable, beautiful, sublime and good) into these women's plotlines. Moreover, Urban moves his story beyond its heady subtext to explore frustrations familiar to suburbanites: the pursuit of happiness, love, success and acceptance. ... KANT is the first play in Urban's New Jersey Trilogy and is perhaps the most ambitious of the three in both ideology and direction." --Show Business Weekly

"Urban has a real flair for writing polished monologues." --Variety

"An exemplary production. The potency of Urban's vision and his insights into his own generation's angst make this a compelling drama." --nytheatre.com

"A brutal, challenging laugh-out loud play, I KANT is radically ambitious." --Seattle Weekly

Nibbler

"Nibbler is Jersey Devil fierce."--Los Angeles Times

"The play is pointedly political, wickedly clever and completely illogical. A wild, toxically invigorating ride." --OC Weekly

Halo

"Halo is an awesome achievement." --Los Angeles Times

"A play that truly heralds Urban as someone that the contemporary theater should take notice of." --OC Weekly

The New Jersey Trilogy

"After experiencing the three one-acts in Ken Urban's New Jersey Trilogy, you're not sure if you should brush up on your Hegel or take a cold shower, whether you should puke or beat off. As heady and metaphysical as it is brutally shocking and profane, as unapologetically iconoclastic as it is downright silly, this unholy troika succeeds best in getting you excited about the limitless possibilities of the theater. Urban is as comfortable ripping apart theatrical form as he is addressing subjects foreign to all but the most adventurous stages from Kant's theory of the sublime to eating ass. There are several football fields of ground covered in Urban's plays. The only similarity in form or content is setting: they take place somewhere in New Jersey. And while it's hard to tell if Urban is as brilliant and provocative as he is clever and perverted, it's undeniable that he's gushing with talent, a sexual deviant, a student of philosophy, a Mac Wellman disciple and a writer wholly unafraid to tackle anything." --OC Weekly

"Ken Urban's New Jersey Trilogy is required viewing for equally courageous audiences." --Los Angeles Times

"Playwright Ken Urban's opus The New Jersey Trilogy may not be all things to all people, but it is many things. The collection - subtitled "Three Plays for the Garden State or A Brief History of the End of the Twentieth Century" - is complex, thematically dense, raucously funny, brutally unflinching about violence, intellectually challenging and, occasionally, maddeningly oblique. Taken as three equal parts of a distinct whole, the trilogy paints a fragmented, jarringly incoherent America. Urban paints broad scenarios peopled by individuals desperate for clues in life. For Urban, our society is one massive disconnect - each person from the mass of humanity around them, each person from each other, even each person from themselves - rent psychologically, spiritually and emotionally." --OC Register

"Urban's sense of the absurd is clearly strong in these edgy, imagery-dense one-acts. It's a unique voice that is certainly compelling." --Backstage West

The Private Lives of Eskimos

"MUST CHECK THIS OUT!" --New York Times

"A taut and gripping contemporary techno-thriller, the kind of tale Hitchcock might spin were he alive in our electronic age." --nytheatre.com

The Female Terrorist Project

"A substantial achievement." --nytheatre.com

"If Ken Urban's aim in writing The Female Terrorist Project was to shake us up and awaken us to a startling sub-level of terrorism we might not have realized existed, he has hit the bull's-eye." --Orange County Register

"The Female Terrorist Project is one of the best discussions of gender dynamics that I have seen, presented clearly, thoughtfully, and with humanity. To anyone concerned with the state of world affairs, I highly recommend a night at the Project." --offoffonline.com

The Absence of Weather

"A surreal, fragmentary exploration of the troubled --and troubling-- life of James Forrestal. In Mark Seldis' atmospheric staging of The Absence of Weather, Forrestal remains an enigmatic figure who allows no easy judgments." --Los Angeles Times

"Urban uses Forrestal's Greek side to good effect in The Absence of Weather, especially by suggesting that the defense secretary saw himself as a warrior, like Ajax, made insane by Olympian forces beyond his control." --LA Weekly