Kirsten Baity

Kirsten Baity (they/them) is a Chicago-based playwright, deviser, and teaching artist. Their plays include Hard Pass (Second Site), Rage Isn’t Free: A participatory play (Youth Empowerment and Performance Project), Love and Nappiness(Perceptions Theatre)
They have devised plays with Goodman Theatre's Playbuild and Intergen Ensembles, About Face Theatre, For Youth Inquiry, and Free Street Theater.
They’re an associate artist with Second Site Theatre Collective and a Freestreet In/House fellow. The main focus of their work is telling stories of QTPOC joy and creating participatory plays that allow audiences to rehearse for the revolution

Kirsten Baity (they/them) is a Chicago-based playwright, deviser, and teaching artist. Their plays include Hard Pass (Second Site), Rage Isn’t Free: A participatory play (Youth Empowerment and Performance Project), Love and Nappiness(Perceptions Theatre)
They have devised plays with Goodman Theatre's Playbuild and Intergen Ensembles, About Face Theatre, For Youth Inquiry, and Free Street Theater.
They’re an associate artist with Second Site Theatre Collective and a Freestreet In/House fellow. The main focus of their work is telling stories of QTPOC joy and creating participatory plays that allow audiences to rehearse for the revolution

Scripts

Unlimited Engagement

by Kirsten Baity

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
political

A site-specific play set in the DuSable Museum’s Fighting Racism in the Trenches: A Colored Woman in World War I exhibit.
Unlimited Engagement explores Queer erasure in Black history and what it means to be seen.

A site-specific play set in the DuSable Museum’s Fighting Racism in the Trenches: A Colored Woman in World War I exhibit.
Unlimited Engagement explores Queer erasure in Black history and what it means to be seen.

Hard Pass

by Kirsten Baity

Cast Size
2
Genre
romantic comedy

River has always been a fierce drag queen, but for her debut as a woman, she needs help creating a softer look. Luckily, her roommate Cade is a makeup expert.
Hard Pass is a sweet slice of life exploration of gender nonconformity and T4T love.

River has always been a fierce drag queen, but for her debut as a woman, she needs help creating a softer look. Luckily, her roommate Cade is a makeup expert.
Hard Pass is a sweet slice of life exploration of gender nonconformity and T4T love.

Love and Nappiness

by Kirsten Baity

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

When Meraki’s girlfriend Emma brings her to a queer-friendly salon, their cute couple’s outing devolves into a confrontation with micro-aggressions, cultural blind spots, and the intricacies of queer-interracial love.

This play is meant to be site-specific, where the audience is either in the waiting room or getting their hair done while listening in on this conversation.

When Meraki’s girlfriend Emma brings her to a queer-friendly salon, their cute couple’s outing devolves into a confrontation with micro-aggressions, cultural blind spots, and the intricacies of queer-interracial love.

This play is meant to be site-specific, where the audience is either in the waiting room or getting their hair done while listening in on this conversation.

Rage Isn't Free

by Kirsten Baity

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
immersive,
movement/physical,
political,
satire

When the people on the bottom remove their support. Those on the top will fall.
What if there was a political system built to support the enterprises and financial gain of those who already have privilege and leave people with less power and wealth to fend for themselves. There’s only one problem with this plan. They need us to make this system work. Follow Isha and their roommates who live in a world not so...

When the people on the bottom remove their support. Those on the top will fall.
What if there was a political system built to support the enterprises and financial gain of those who already have privilege and leave people with less power and wealth to fend for themselves. There’s only one problem with this plan. They need us to make this system work. Follow Isha and their roommates who live in a world not so different from our own. Getting by on low wages and whatever they can get from nonprofits until everything changes when they realize that the vote they cast with their dollars is more powerful than their ballots.
Join us for this performance that is half theatre half resistance training.
This is a participatory theater experience. Audience members will be invited to interact with the players. This includes opportunities to engage and explore ideas about politics, protest, and mutual aid.

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Minstrelsy 2.0 or AAVE Ain’t Just a Dialect and Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt.

by Kirsten Baity

1
Cast Size
3—5
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental,
political,
satire,
zoom

Social media influencer, Carmen D'Angelo, is in hot water after she posted a culturally insensitive video on TikTok. Her solution is to stage a well-crafted apology video but everything goes wrong when Yimmy gets on her live stream and calls Carmen out for her constant cultural appropriation and curses Carmen to be treated with the blatant disrespect that Black women face on a regular basis.

Social media influencer, Carmen D'Angelo, is in hot water after she posted a culturally insensitive video on TikTok. Her solution is to stage a well-crafted apology video but everything goes wrong when Yimmy gets on her live stream and calls Carmen out for her constant cultural appropriation and curses Carmen to be treated with the blatant disrespect that Black women face on a regular basis.