Kevin King
Kevin King (he/him) is a queer playwright from Topeka, KS. He's a graduate of the University of Kansas with a BA in English. He currently resides in Kansas City, MO where he is a Playwright-in-Residence at the Midwest Dramatist Center. King is also Producing Artistic Director of Whim Productions. King, a member of the Dramatists Guild, was a 2016 Playwright-in-Residence in The Charlotte Street Foundation...
Kevin King (he/him) is a queer playwright from Topeka, KS. He's a graduate of the University of Kansas with a BA in English. He currently resides in Kansas City, MO where he is a Playwright-in-Residence at the Midwest Dramatist Center. King is also Producing Artistic Director of Whim Productions. King, a member of the Dramatists Guild, was a 2016 Playwright-in-Residence in The Charlotte Street Foundation's studio residency program. King's short play "The Swallows," which was selected for the William Inge Festival's 2019 New Play Lab, will be published in Smith & Kraus' The Best 10-Minute Plays - 2022 anthology. His short play "Debating" was a 2021 semi-finalist for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival. His play "Boxed" was selected for Kansas City Public's 2022 Playlab Series.
King's work ranges from broad Camp and satire to unblinking looks at moments in modern queer lives.
His produced plays include "Film Classics Present: Heaven So Far", "Flowers in the Wardrobe", "Mimi Dafoe: Confessions of an Aging Starlet", and numerous short plays.