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Theatre
Writer/Director
Street Theatre Troupe
Cambridge, Massachusetts · 1969
1969 — The Student Strike, Money Is King, local high schools
Theatre of Principles Lab
Berkeley, California
1973–75 — Workshop
1973 — The Deification of Chamber Who
Nothing Theatre
New York City · 2016
Pocket Plays
Reviews
“This is a knockout. A novel that’s as smart as it is compelling, that challenges our preconceptions while pulling us so deeply into its world… Utterly fascinating and impossible to put down.”
David Schiller, author of Guitar and The Little Book of Zen
“Kroll’s worldbuilding in this opening series installment is sublime… an engrossing, perspicacious SF yarn [that] sets the stage for a sure-to-be-memorable saga.”
“The narrative is thick with themes of acceptance, disillusionment, and the struggle for authenticity in an increasingly artificial world.”
Louise Garten, The Book Commentary
“Kroll’s vivid writing kept me on the edge of my seat, blending suspense with philosophical inquiries about technology’s role in our lives.”
K.C. Finn, Readers’ Favorite
Reviews
“A chilling and thrilling exploration of what being a person really means… it treats AI as a civilizational rupture rather than a narrative gimmick.”
Eric Mayrhofer, Independent Book Review
“This fascinating science fiction novel is filled with futuristic technology and set in a frighteningly realistic world… a philosophical feast that is relatable in today’s context.”
K.T. Bowes, Readers’ Favorite
“The author skillfully weaves topical issues into the narrative… the futuristic tech is deftly detailed.”
My Retirement
in Just Another Asshole #6
Edited by photographer and musician Barbara Ess from 1978 to 1987, Just Another Asshole was a seminal and now legendary series of publications that helped define New York’s No Wave community. Each issue took a different form: zine, LP record, large-format tabloid, magazine, exhibition catalog and paperback book.
Just Another Asshole number six was the famous fiction issue, designed in the style of a pulp paperback. It was co-edited with composer Glenn Branca and contained a diverse mix of artists, musicians and writers from the early ‘80s downtown scene—among them Kathy Acker, Lynn Tillman, Cookie Mueller, Richard Prince, Judy Rifka, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith, Lee Ranaldo, David Wojnarowicz and Michael Gira.
The work in the publication was transgressive, unapologetic and unrelenting in its style and subject matter. Today it presents a bleak yet romantic view of life in New York City before the AIDS crisis, before gentrification, before Rudy Giuliani and before the real-estate boom pushed the underground out of Lower Manhattan.
Elijah Named Manager of Saints
in The Dreamlife of Johnny Baseball
This book, along with The Temple of Baseball and Baseball, I Gave You the Best Years of My Life, makes a fantastic trilogy of personal baseball. The viewing experience is melded with playing, art, and life (before it was fashionable) into something great.
Electric Chorus & Orchestra
Chinese Puzzle
Glenn Branca Band
Outlanders
