Kira Rockwell
Kira Rockwell (she/her) is a neurodivergent playwright from the heart of Texas. She is an Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing with the Mass Cultural Council, a recipient of the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, three-time finalist for the O’Neill NPC, two-time finalist for the Princess Grace Award, two-time semi-finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Award, semi-...
Kira Rockwell (she/her) is a neurodivergent playwright from the heart of Texas. She is an Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing with the Mass Cultural Council, a recipient of the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, three-time finalist for the O’Neill NPC, two-time finalist for the Princess Grace Award, two-time semi-finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Award, semi-finalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, and more.
Her plays include OH TO BE PURE AGAIN (current world premiere: Actor's Express); THE TRAGIC ECSTASY OF GIRLHOOD (workshop premiere: Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, a Boston Globe Critic’s Pick, and Elliot Norton Nominee); NOMAD AMERICANA (world premiere: Fresh Ink Theatre); WICKED BITTER BEAST(S) (developed with The Theatre School at DePaul University); and WITH MY EYES SHUT (now available through Original Works Publishing). Rockwell is currently under commission with Ensemble Studio Theatre, and previously with Moonbox Productions.
Her work has been developed with The Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, MFA Playwrights' Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Commons, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and Third Culture Theatre in partnership with HBO and Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network, among others. Rockwell holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University.
Before graduate school, Rockwell worked at the intersection of mental health, youth development, and arts education. Through a trauma informed, healing centered lens, she aims to nurture communal spaces that disrupt passivity and empower agency.
Feel free to explore her full Artist Statement.