Carson Kreitzer: women who kill; She writes about real people--including outlaws and icons--at flash points in their lives.(PEOPLE)

"I'VE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY WOMEN WHO break the status quo, who go outlaw," declares Carson Kreitzer. That doesn't mean the 37-year-old playwright is about to become fodder for the tabloids. "For all my rabble-rousing talk," she quickly adds, "I feel pretty strongly the need to be a 'good girl.'" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nevertheless, Kreitzer is attracted to stories of women who go "off the rails," as she puts it. But in her case, "I think I write plays rather than picking up a gun." More often than not, the ...