Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, Emerson College
P. Carl is a Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, at Emerson College in Boston. He is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition (Simon & Schuster, 2020) and the play adaptation Becoming a Man commissioned and produced by American Repertory Theater (ART), Harvard in February of 2024. The play was nominated for Outstanding New Play by the Boston Theater Critics Association. Becoming a Man will have its West Coast Premiere in San Francisco at Z Space in May/June of 2026. He is a recipient of the Camargo Foundation/Racial Imaginary Institute residency in Marseille, France for the summer of 2026. He was the Anschutz Fellow at Princeton University, an Art of Change Fellow with the Ford Foundation, awarded the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy, and the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, Lit Hub, and the Ocean State Review. He is currently working on his next book, Vagrant, and a new play Rare Birds commissioned by ART.
Carl received a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a Masters in Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and holds a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota. He was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and now lives in Rhode Island with his spouse, the writer Lynette D’Amico.
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