Kira Rockwell is a Boston-based playwright from North Texas. She is the 2019 recipient of the Judith Royer Award of Excellence in Playwriting. In most recent news, her play THE TRAGIC ECSTASY OF GIRLHOOD is the second place recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, and the National Winner of The Bridge Initiative’s Bechdel Test Fest, as well as being shortlisted for PlayPenn and a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Center. Her latest play, OH TO BE PURE AGAIN, will be developed this summer at the 2019 Playwrights' Workshop with the Kennedy Center and NNPN.

Other plays include, WITH MY EYES SHUT (Last Frontier Theatre Conference, 2018 Best in Dance & Physical Theatre at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival), NOMAD AMERICANA (World Premiere: Fresh Ink Theatre). Her plays have been developed and or produced by the Kennedy Center, NNPN, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 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 current MFA playwriting program at Boston University, she spent many years working at the intersection of social work, youth development, and art’s education in various nonprofits throughout Waco, Texas including a three year stint working full time at a Children’s Home. Her play, WITH MY EYES SHUT, will be published in 2019 with Original Works. Kira lives in Boston with her designer/illustrator husband and their frisbee catching doggo. She feels most alive outside in nature or inside the rehearsal room.