Gabe McKinley

Gabe McKinley's plays have been produced and developed by companies nationally and internationally, including Atlantic Theater Company, Naked Angels, Premiere Stages, The Old Vic, American Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, The LARK, Keen company and Red Dog Squadron among other companies. His plays include The Kitchen Sink Play, Welcome Home Rock Rogers, Funny, Floodplains, Skopje, The Source and the critically acclaimed Extinction and CQ/CX (John Gassner Outer Critics Award nomination). His new play Missing Little White Girl premieres in Los Angeles in 2015 with Red Dog Squadron. His short play, The Grave, was the winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Gabe was the recipient of the 2011 Samuel French/New School for Drama Award for Excellence in...

Gabe McKinley's plays have been produced and developed by companies nationally and internationally, including Atlantic Theater Company, Naked Angels, Premiere Stages, The Old Vic, American Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, The LARK, Keen company and Red Dog Squadron among other companies. His plays include The Kitchen Sink Play, Welcome Home Rock Rogers, Funny, Floodplains, Skopje, The Source and the critically acclaimed Extinction and CQ/CX (John Gassner Outer Critics Award nomination). His new play Missing Little White Girl premieres in Los Angeles in 2015 with Red Dog Squadron. His short play, The Grave, was the winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Gabe was the recipient of the 2011 Samuel French/New School for Drama Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and his play CQ/CX was included in the Smith and Krause anthology "New Playwrights: The Best New Plays 2012." He is published by Samuel French, and is a graduate of NYU and The New School for Drama.

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Scripts

FLANNEL

by Gabe McKinley

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

At the dawn of the 1990's in a midwestern suburb, a young loner named Mike tries to make his way home while navigating the perils of a teenage wasteland with nothing to protect him but his flannel.

At the dawn of the 1990's in a midwestern suburb, a young loner named Mike tries to make his way home while navigating the perils of a teenage wasteland with nothing to protect him but his flannel.

SKOPJE

by Gabe McKinley

Cast Size
7—8
Genre
drama

When an academic takes a Fulbright teaching assignment in communist Yugoslavia, he exposes his American family to an alluring new world, but entwines his marriage in a dangerous game.

When an academic takes a Fulbright teaching assignment in communist Yugoslavia, he exposes his American family to an alluring new world, but entwines his marriage in a dangerous game.

FUNNY

by Gabe McKinley

Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

It's a big night at Karin's Comedy Club. With the chance at their own television show hanging in the balance, five stand-up comedians wrangle with their emotions and one another. This dark comedy exposes the hilarious and harrowing world of the most fearless performer around: the stand up comedian -- begging the ultimate question: what is FUNNY?

It's a big night at Karin's Comedy Club. With the chance at their own television show hanging in the balance, five stand-up comedians wrangle with their emotions and one another. This dark comedy exposes the hilarious and harrowing world of the most fearless performer around: the stand up comedian -- begging the ultimate question: what is FUNNY?