Kira Rockwell (she/her) is a Boston-based playwright from North Texas. She is the 2019 recipient of the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award and runner-up for this years Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/Fellowship at New Dramatists. Her play The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood is the second place recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, the National Winner of The Bechdel Test Fest, and a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Center. The workshop premiere received an Elliot Norton nomination for Outstanding New Script. Her work has been featured in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, ATHE Conference, and WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival. Her work has been supported by the Kennedy Center, the National New Play Network, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, The Bridge Initiative, Little Black Dress INK, Fresh Ink Theatre, and Third Culture Theatre in collaboration with Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network and HBO. Kira holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Baylor University. Before entering into her MFA playwriting program at Boston University, she spent time in various nonprofits working at the intersection of social work, youth development, and arts education. Her acclaimed neurodivergent love story, With My Eyes Shut, is now available through Original Works Publishing.