Kenndall Wallace

Kenndall uses the written word to entertain audiences and create living, moving art pieces through storytelling. She was an inaugural winner of the Lumen Playwriting Competition, a 2026 O’Neill Finalist, and has been honored with four national ACTF Playwriting Awards for full-length plays 'To Cry Into Sand' and 'Reckless Black Dropouts'. She was an inaugural member of the Black Playwrights' Gathering in Washington, D.C., a 2025 Torch Literary Arts Fellow, an LTA one-act playwriting award winner, was a top 30 playwright for the 50th Concord Off-Off Broadway Festival, and a member of Dramatic Question Theatre's Classics in Color Cohort. Published by 1319 Press & VANTAGE Magazine. Works have been seen at The Tank, Lynn F. Angelson Theatre, George Washington Carver Museum, The Kennedy Center...

Kenndall uses the written word to entertain audiences and create living, moving art pieces through storytelling. She was an inaugural winner of the Lumen Playwriting Competition, a 2026 O’Neill Finalist, and has been honored with four national ACTF Playwriting Awards for full-length plays 'To Cry Into Sand' and 'Reckless Black Dropouts'. She was an inaugural member of the Black Playwrights' Gathering in Washington, D.C., a 2025 Torch Literary Arts Fellow, an LTA one-act playwriting award winner, was a top 30 playwright for the 50th Concord Off-Off Broadway Festival, and a member of Dramatic Question Theatre's Classics in Color Cohort. Published by 1319 Press & VANTAGE Magazine. Works have been seen at The Tank, Lynn F. Angelson Theatre, George Washington Carver Museum, The Kennedy Center, The Mouths of Babes Theatre, WOWCafe Theatre, Farmers' Alley Theatre, among others.

Scripts

DOM/ME

by Kenndall Wallace

Synopsis

September 2008. 10:45 PM.
In the wake of an economic recession, Mucha was the first to go as Boston Holdings handed out layoffs like peppermint candies. As the sole caretaker of her father, Mucha needs money-- but no one'll give it to her.
No one, of course, but the Salome Dominatrix Club: a Black owned establishment kept afloat by dommes Jugg, Gio, and Berry. Stumbling into the club, Mucha has to grapple with...

September 2008. 10:45 PM.
In the wake of an economic recession, Mucha was the first to go as Boston Holdings handed out layoffs like peppermint candies. As the sole caretaker of her father, Mucha needs money-- but no one'll give it to her.
No one, of course, but the Salome Dominatrix Club: a Black owned establishment kept afloat by dommes Jugg, Gio, and Berry. Stumbling into the club, Mucha has to grapple with love, loss, and revenge as she evolves as a person and a woman.

The Empty Plate of Our Father

by Kenndall Wallace

Synopsis

It's the rainy season, and a man is dying.
Four estranged Black half-siblings sit together in the home of their dying father, gathered in preparation to hear who will inherit their father's estate as outlined in his last will and testament. As they await the arrival of their father's lawyer, who will announce the inheritor, the siblings contemplate their past, present, and future-- mourning the loss of a father...

It's the rainy season, and a man is dying.
Four estranged Black half-siblings sit together in the home of their dying father, gathered in preparation to hear who will inherit their father's estate as outlined in his last will and testament. As they await the arrival of their father's lawyer, who will announce the inheritor, the siblings contemplate their past, present, and future-- mourning the loss of a father who was never present in any of their lives, and forming new relationships with each other.

Secrets We Wish To Keep

by Kenndall Wallace

Synopsis

After a forgotten memory resurfaces, Lucky and Sam struggle to stay in their American Dream.

After a forgotten memory resurfaces, Lucky and Sam struggle to stay in their American Dream.

Paraniggas in the Park (Or; The Park Play)

by Kenndall Wallace

Synopsis

A half-memoir, half-surrealist abstraction play about a the cyclic deaths of a Black woman on her way back from visiting a local park.

A half-memoir, half-surrealist abstraction play about a the cyclic deaths of a Black woman on her way back from visiting a local park.

Reckless Black Dropouts

by Kenndall Wallace

Synopsis

Four Black, twenty-something college dropouts– Naima, Raymond, Camille, and Jordan–attempt to return to their alma mater through the groundbreaking ‘Bring Black Kids Back’ Initiative, spearheaded by DEI Department Co-Head Nakhia Brown. However, in order to return to the university, they must first explain the reasoning behind their choice to drop out of the university-- with each student having dropped out due...

Four Black, twenty-something college dropouts– Naima, Raymond, Camille, and Jordan–attempt to return to their alma mater through the groundbreaking ‘Bring Black Kids Back’ Initiative, spearheaded by DEI Department Co-Head Nakhia Brown. However, in order to return to the university, they must first explain the reasoning behind their choice to drop out of the university-- with each student having dropped out due to negative experiences with institutional racism.

When it is revealed that the BBKB was only put in place to retain enough students to qualify the university for a state-wide diversity grant, the dropouts must ultimately make the choice of whether or not to go through with re-enrollment at the cost of being tokenized by their university; or back out of the program, living up to the stereotype of the ‘Reckless Black Dropout’.

Momma's Boy

by Kenndall Wallace

Synopsis

Damien is angry.
His mother has died, and his father-- who has been absent for Damien's entire life-- has sent him a twenty-three dollar check in the mail as a form of condolences. The grief, paired with the anger and the humiliation, is too much for Damien to bear; so, when his best friend Ed suggests that he and Damien drive by his father's house for some much-needed closure, Damien jumps at the chance.

Damien is angry.
His mother has died, and his father-- who has been absent for Damien's entire life-- has sent him a twenty-three dollar check in the mail as a form of condolences. The grief, paired with the anger and the humiliation, is too much for Damien to bear; so, when his best friend Ed suggests that he and Damien drive by his father's house for some much-needed closure, Damien jumps at the chance.

The Mosaic Woman

by Kenndall Wallace

Synopsis

After his sister commits suicide, Sydney goes to the family home to receive the last letter she has ever written him. Alongside him is his grieving mother, angered brother, depressed father-- and of course, his lingering problem of addiction, which refuses to go away for too long.

After his sister commits suicide, Sydney goes to the family home to receive the last letter she has ever written him. Alongside him is his grieving mother, angered brother, depressed father-- and of course, his lingering problem of addiction, which refuses to go away for too long.