Who is Soren Kisiel? Picture a Venn diagram of imaginative children's book authors, insightful Buddhist writers, daring political comedy playwrights, and outrageous feminist song-writers.
There's just one person in the middle. That's Soren.
..also, Soren has a second-degree blackbelt in taikwondo, and is ordained in the Zen Buddhist tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn. Which means he could kick your butt if he wasn’t so darned peaceful.
Co-Author for musical comedian and YouTube sensation Katie Goodman.
I'll check her out!
"Brought the house down...Brilliant!"
—Comedy Central
'Impressive... magnificent!"
—Punchline Magazine
"Hilarious! Fortunately there are the Goodmans of the world that can steer us back to reality."
—Bustle Magazine
Once Upon A Tree
from Plum Blossom Books. A Buddhist-y parable about finding your purpose.
Tell me more!
"Uplifting… An important book.It tells the children, and the children who are hiding in adults’s bodies, that we don’t have to do what others are doing."
—Worn Corners
Also look for Soren’s essay in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn’s One Buddha Is Not Enough: A Story of Collective Awakening!
Co-Author of the outrageous all-women comedy troupe Broad Comedy. Touring nationally after two Off-Broadway runs!
Hey, I've heard of them!
"Finally, someone said what we were thinking."
—The Huffington Post
"Think of these ladies as the voice in your head—only funnier."
CRITICS PICK
—Time Out New York
The (Insert Your City Here) Mikado
Soren’s original adaptation of the classic comic opera, using the original music but with lyrics updated to the present day with searing satire that Gilbert and Sullivan would be proud of.
Show me!
“Ingeniously written and hilariously funny. The work could become the New York Mikado or DC Mikado. Masterfully written, rivaled the best of Rossini’s comic creations.”
—Opera Now Magazine
The Night Our Parents Went Out
from POW Books. A ridiculously imaginative adventure.
My kids would love it!
“Deliciously playful... fun-filled!"
—Judith Viorst, best-selling author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
"Goodman and Kisiel run a comedy troupe, and it shows! Imagination is where the real fun is."
—Publishers Weekly
Directed comedian and NPR host Ophira Eisenberg in creating her one-woman show, Leaving a Mark, from a sold-out Off-Broadway opening to theaters around the U.S. to a European tour!
Winner, Women in the Arts & Media Award for Solo Show Scripts
“witty…shameless… an intimate atmosphere quickly develops in the room. A MAsterclass in storytelling"
—de Volksrant, Amsterdam
Shhhhhhh... Soren also secretly writes these...
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