Keyanna Khatiblou

Keyanna Khatiblou

Keyanna Khatiblou (she/her) is an LA-based playwright, podcast writer, and TV writer. She is an Affiliated Writer with the Playwrights' Center, a member of Playground-LA, and the Playwright in Residence at the Evanston Children's Theater, where four of her TYA plays have been produced. Awards: Alliance/Kendeda Playwriting Competition (Finalist), Barrington Stage Company’s Burman Award (Finalist),...
Keyanna Khatiblou (she/her) is an LA-based playwright, podcast writer, and TV writer. She is an Affiliated Writer with the Playwrights' Center, a member of Playground-LA, and the Playwright in Residence at the Evanston Children's Theater, where four of her TYA plays have been produced. Awards: Alliance/Kendeda Playwriting Competition (Finalist), Barrington Stage Company’s Burman Award (Finalist), Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (Semi-Finalist), Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award (Finalist), Jane Chambers Award (Honorable Mention), and Theatre Masters MFA Playwrights Festival. Her play, 2020: a going away party play, was recently workshopped with Boston Court Pasadena as part of their New Play Festival, and her romance podcast series,The Royals of Malibu, premieres February 2023. TV Rep: Zero Gravity. MFA: Northwestern.

Plays

  • 2020: a going away party play by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 7 more
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    Keyword: Middle Eastern Americans, Iran + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, immersive, movement/physical, political
    Keyword: Middle Eastern Americans, Iran, Iranian-American, LGBTQ, political, revolution, iranian revolution
    First generation Iranian-American Mina is throwing a party for her closest friends and for you, the audience. Using games, flashbacks, and storytelling, the ensemble reflects on the modern American identity and shares a retelling of Mina's parents falling in love and staying in love while fleeing the Iranian Revolution. 2020: A GOING AWAY PARTY PLAY is a celebration of multicultural identities and...
    First generation Iranian-American Mina is throwing a party for her closest friends and for you, the audience. Using games, flashbacks, and storytelling, the ensemble reflects on the modern American identity and shares a retelling of Mina's parents falling in love and staying in love while fleeing the Iranian Revolution. 2020: A GOING AWAY PARTY PLAY is a celebration of multicultural identities and exploration of what it means to leave or lose your home country.

    Finalist: Theater on the Lake In the Works New Play Commission
    Reading: Theater on the Lake, Loyola Park, 2019
  • The Dirty: Survival Skills of State School Girls with Good Bodies in the Year 2008 by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 1 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama
    Michelle's nudes got leaked. She and her best friend will do whatever it takes to get them taken down. A play about desire and rage.
  • The Tower by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, feminist + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, horror, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, romantic comedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ, feminist, PTSD, Mental Health, dance, horror, queer women
    Lily, a millennial Chicagoan, has lived with her monsters for as long as she can remember. They've developed an understanding so they can more or less coexist, until one day the monsters begin acting erratically and Lily decides she's had enough. Teaming up with her cool girl roommate, a woke frat bro, a Wiccan sorority girl, and a really nice, really pretty girl that Lily may actually like ("umm...
    Lily, a millennial Chicagoan, has lived with her monsters for as long as she can remember. They've developed an understanding so they can more or less coexist, until one day the monsters begin acting erratically and Lily decides she's had enough. Teaming up with her cool girl roommate, a woke frat bro, a Wiccan sorority girl, and a really nice, really pretty girl that Lily may actually like ("umm!!!!"), Lily decides to take back her life from the creatures that haunt her. The Tower is a queer horror play about literally killing your demons.
  • Stitches by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, tragedy
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    Keyword: capitalism, feminism + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: capitalism, feminism, monologue play
    A monologue play about feminist capitalism. We spend an hour with Sara, a canceled She-E-O #GirlBoss.
  • Losing All Your Friends by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, immersive
    Stuart, Therese, and Ava are third year grad students who love literature, parties, and each other. LOSING ALL YOUR FRIENDS takes place on the CTA during the 2016-2017 school year, with the audience serving as fellow passengers during their tos and fros. During their last moments in academia, the women are ultimately forced to reckon with misplaced trust as they discover the potential cost of success in the arts.
  • My Yellow is Yours, Your Red is Mine by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    10-minute play about two blended culture Iranian-Americans celebrating the Persian New Year.
  • Fish and Wildlife by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    10-minute play. An activist and a wildlife biologist face off in the Sonoran Desert.
  • Order for Vicky by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, queer + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ, queer, queer women
    10-minute play about forgiveness and public break ups.
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    18–37
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 5 more
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    Keyword: adaptation, comedy + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical, young audiences
    Keyword: adaptation, comedy, fairy tale, Grimm's Fairytale, princess
    Twelve princesses are testing the boundaries set by an overprotective parent. With a reward at stake, the kids in town want to figure out where the twelve princesses are sneaking off to every night. A modern adaption of the Grimms Fairytale with a flexible cast and plenty of roles for girls.
  • Penelope's Odyssey by Keyanna Khatiblou
    Cast: 
    12–40
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 2 more
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    Keyword: Social anxiety, tya + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: Social anxiety, tya, feminist, adaptation
    When Penelope's best friend Odysseus calls out sick, she must overcome her social anxiety and navigate a day at Ithaca Middle School by herself. A TYA adaptation of The Odyssey commissioned for the Evanston Children's Theater with a flexible cast and several prominent roles for girls.