Kristen McCullough

Kristen is an emerging Los Angeles-based playwright and Ovation Award-winning actress whose work centers on family, identity, and the universal need to belong. A member of a curated writers' collective led by award-winning playwright and filmmaker Del Shores (Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies), she has developed her craft under his mentorship alongside a community of working writers.

Her debut stage play, Sharp Curves, born from a personal family experience, received its first staged reading at the Broadwater Theater in Los Angeles in 2023. Her newest work, Dancing on the Titanic, received a reading at the Broadwater earlier this year.

As an actress, Kristen received her Ovation Award for her work in Del Shores' Yellow. She brings to the page everything the stage taught her about...

Kristen is an emerging Los Angeles-based playwright and Ovation Award-winning actress whose work centers on family, identity, and the universal need to belong. A member of a curated writers' collective led by award-winning playwright and filmmaker Del Shores (Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies), she has developed her craft under his mentorship alongside a community of working writers.

Her debut stage play, Sharp Curves, born from a personal family experience, received its first staged reading at the Broadwater Theater in Los Angeles in 2023. Her newest work, Dancing on the Titanic, received a reading at the Broadwater earlier this year.

As an actress, Kristen received her Ovation Award for her work in Del Shores' Yellow. She brings to the page everything the stage taught her about truth, character, and human connection.

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Scripts

Sharp Curves

by Kristen McCullough

Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

In the heart of Nashville, a self-assured woman in her late 40's grapples with the sudden revelation of her true paternity while her fractured family reunites to navigate a legacy of lies, love, and one rebellious teenage son. As deep-seated secrets unravel, she must determine if she can maintain control or if the sharp curves of life will send her careening off course.

In the heart of Nashville, a self-assured woman in her late 40's grapples with the sudden revelation of her true paternity while her fractured family reunites to navigate a legacy of lies, love, and one rebellious teenage son. As deep-seated secrets unravel, she must determine if she can maintain control or if the sharp curves of life will send her careening off course.

Dancing on the Titanic

by Kristen McCullough

Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

Two sisters who have spent decades bound together by loyalty, resentment, and a devastating shared secret find their fragile balance beginning to collapse after a family health scare forces old tensions back to the surface. Caught between them is Paloma, the sharp-witted and emotionally restless daughter who has spent her life searching for connection without fully understanding what’s been withheld from her. As...

Two sisters who have spent decades bound together by loyalty, resentment, and a devastating shared secret find their fragile balance beginning to collapse after a family health scare forces old tensions back to the surface. Caught between them is Paloma, the sharp-witted and emotionally restless daughter who has spent her life searching for connection without fully understanding what’s been withheld from her. As the women struggle over love, guilt, and who has the right to tell the truth, Dancing on the Titanic unfolds as a darkly funny and emotionally explosive portrait of family, sacrifice, and the stories people create to survive one another.

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