Kevin King (he/him) is a queer playwright living in Kansas City, MO. He is also the Producing Artistic Director of Whim Productions, Kansas City’s LGBTQ+ theater company.

He is a Playwright-in-Residence at the Midwest Dramatist Center and a member of the Dramatists Guild. He was a 2016 Playwright-in-Residence in The Charlotte Street Foundation's studio residency program. His short play "The Swallows" is published in the Smith & Kraus Best 10-Minute Plays of 2022 anthology. It was developed in the William Inge Festival's 2019 New Play Lab and has been produced across the country. His short play "Debating," which was part of Whim’s 2023 Alphabet Soup: Theater from Queer Voices, was a 2021 semi-finalist for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival. Around KC, his short plays have been produced by Whim, Fishtank Theatre (2014), The Barn Players (2018 & 2019), One-Minute Play Festival (2016), and the KC Horror Fest (2016). His full-length plays include “Film Classics Presents: Heaven So Far" (Whim, 2011), “Flowers in the Wardrobe” (Whim, 2014), and “Mimi Dafoe: Confessions of an Aging Starlet” (Whim, 2016).

His full-length play "Boxed," which is an examination of the #metoo era through a queer lens, was produced in 2023 by Whim Productions.