Lindsay Kennedy

What's a guy to do when a girl asks him to chokemedaddy? How do you tell your crush you want him to kiss you before choking you? Is the only hope of intimacy an AI chatbot when you are single in a small town in your fifties? "Breath Play" explores the power dynamics and the perils of intimacy and technology on one midwestern college campus. It focuses on three women, two students and a professor, who is also one of the girls' mother, and their self-discoveries over the course of a semester and a clinical study on sexual choking on school campuses.

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FULL-LENGTH: Is faith just a kind of madness? A court-appointed therapist tries to help an institutionalized young women that claims a heavenly voice told her to jump off a building. She insists God was going to help her fly to help the world believe in miracles again. The further the two women get in their sessions, the more questions arise about whose view of reality is true, and who needs a miracle the most. All Winged Creatures explores cycles of trauma, mental health, faith, and mothers and daughters.

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Braydon needs to pass this class. Alex needs to not be a tutor anymore and remember to take her meds. A quiz proctoring goes haywire in this dark comedy.

FULL-LENGTH: A ranger searching for a missing girl gets more than she bargained for while interviewing an old woman who makes instruments and who may have been the last person to see the girl. Quickly, it becomes clear both women share more than they think, especially the fact that they both have something to hide. A tale of music and mayhem, secrets and suspense, "Whisper Music" will keep you on the edge of your seat.

FULL-LENGTH: Madeleine has spent her entire life in a lab as a test subject. The scientists who watch her are no closer to finding a cure, and meanwhile every night the King of Germs visits her in her dreams and tries to touch her with his contaminating hand. She enlists the help of her imaginary friend the Robot to fight him off and soon must make a choice whether to leave the only home she's ever known.

FULL-LENGTH: After Jen's son Wyatt is accused of sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend at a party, she is introduced to a support group for women whose relations have been accused of rape. With their encouragement, she decides she will stop at nothing to get to the truth of the matter and to get Wyatt's charges dropped. "Rattler" interrogates rape culture and small-town prejudices, but most of all the women that love and protect predators.

FULL-LENGTH: A dancing river is the last thing keeping this struggling farming community alive. Everything changes when young Wren Walker crosses the river on a dare, and discovers the town ghost is an elderly woman whose tears keep the river flowing. As Wren continues to visit, the woman stops weeping and the land begins to dry up. When their crops wither and dust fills their lungs, the townspeople question their faith and grow angry, looking for something, or someone, to blame.

FULL-LENGTH: In Victorian England, newlywed Lilly moves into a small country estate with her near-stranger husband. After a chance encounter with a snake in her garden, the equilibrium of her life is shattered as she grapples with a pregnancy she didn’t want. Is she the only one that can see the monster that follows her, or is she truly losing her mind?

An exploration into the origins of the shadowy mythological persona of Lillith, Viper is inspired by the folklore and apocrypha surrounding the Creation story.

A stranger-than-fiction pen pal relationship between Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot, leads to just one meeting between the two men and both of their much younger wives in 1964, the year before Eliot's death. Me and Mr. Tom dramatizes this real-life meeting, as these mismatched characters banter and fight their way through multiple courses, far too many drinks, and at least two cigars in a darkly comic exploration of art, persona, and prejudice.

A dark comedy about humans, fish, and everything in between, Dead Zone explores water pollution and eco-terrorism and asks the important questions…What does it truly mean to coexist? How far are we willing to go to enact change? And the age-old question, what more can you do to make it clear to him you JUST AREN’T INTERESTED? The answer is nothing short of staging your own death. Dead Zone is a comically brutal play about how far we will go to protect those we love and the places we call home.

A roadie, trying to clear a stage post-concert, is forced to clear the air with her soon-to-be-ex-husband before she can truly move on.

Two teenagers form an unlikely bond while sharing a hiding place, waiting for the bomb to drop.

TEN MINUTE PLAY: A catfish family faces the slow decline of their neighborhood into a Dead Zone due to pollution.

Arthur Miller drama meets ecological absurdist comedy in this comically brutal ten-minute play.

TEN MINUTE PLAY: Four white women prepare for a march in DC, but through their planning the holes in their intersectionality and their unconscious racism emerges.

Sparky the elf is determined to change the script this year and give Santa the Christmas surprise he deserves...an elven worker's strike.

TEN MINUTE PLAY: The story of a mother’s curse unfolds from the perspective of her daughter, in this atmospheric Southern Gothic play. Through monologue, music, and puppetry, a bloody secret comes to light.

Inspired by the story of Mary Ann Cotton and written for the 365 Women A Year Playwriting Project.

A ranger searching for a lost girl discovers more than they bargained for while interviewing an old woman who lives by herself and makes instruments. A tale of music and mayhem, Whisper Music will keep you on the edge of your seat.

A couple separated by quarantine shares their "last supper" of the random ingredients left in their apartments over Zoom, only for underlying tensions and a hunger for deeper connection to emerge.

TEN MINUTE PLAY: A women is forced to relive a painful decision from her past when faced with an unexpected visitor.

TYA ONE ACT: Nine year old Ellie struggles to adapt to her new surroundings after her mother moves them up to Michigan. When the grandfather she hasn’t seen in a year offers to teach her to ice skate, it is the last thing she wants to do. But with some help from a magical being called Winter and the unending warmth and goofy jokes of her grandfather, she begins to enjoy their skating sessions. Their sessions are forced to end after a heartbreaking loss, and Ellie has to learn how to skate on her own. Skating is a story of love, loss, and the magic of playing on ice.

TYA ONE ACT: A diverse group of students struggle with defining themselves, fitting in, and finding people that understand them. Xiomara and Roger are immigrants from Honduras, Jake's father is in jail, Emily's dealing with her anxiety, and Shara is sick of Addy's racial microaggressions. They all have more than enough on their plate without also having to survive Middle School.

Commissioned by Westridge Middle School and based on the writings of real middle schoolers.

TYA ONE-ACT: Dash works in a special factory that paints the patterns on animals. His job is to paint the spots onto dogs and his friend Myrna paints the stripes onto zebras. He loves his job, but he wants to try painting other shapes too. He talks his friend Myrna into switching jobs one day, but realizes that painting stripes isn't as easy as he thought it would be. Madness and mayhem ensue across the factory, and Dash learns an important lesson about taking responsibility for his actions. This play is intended for Pre-K to 2nd grade students.

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A new musical with music by Rebecca Nisco, book and lyrics by Lindsay Adams.

Determined to find her husband who is serving as a union medic during the Civil War, Harriet disguises herself as a man and enlists. Her journey takes her into unfamiliar territory, teaching her about sacrifice, family, and how little she knows about her own country. This musical explores the untold stories and sacrifices of the women of the Civil War.

A woman is killed and her husband and daughter grow further and further apart in their grief. An attempt to reach out to his daughter leads this father to a disturbing realization. A story of mistaken identity, loneliness, and lust, Flesh is a funny, twisted take on how we blur the lines and seek comfort on the Internet.

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TEN MINUTE PLAY: A recently married couple reevaluate their relationship and decide on their future when one of them is forced to return to war.

After a devastating betrayal, a young married couple try to pick up the pieces and discover how difficult it is to start again or keep a potted plant alive for more than a month. Their first meeting, their marriage, and the times between are woven together in this non-linear play.

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A Grim Reaper shares a little about the day-to-day of the job, revealing it may be a bit less glamourous than one might assume.