Hannah Kenah

Hannah Kenah

Hannah Kenah is a playwright, performer, director, and devised theatre artist. A Midwesterner by way of Texas now living in Los Angeles, Hannah has been developing original theatrical performance for two decades, primarily with the Rude Mechs and with Salvage Vanguard Theater. Her work with the Rude Mechs includes writing Field Guide and Now Now Oh Now, and touring nationally with The Method Gun. Hannah's...
Hannah Kenah is a playwright, performer, director, and devised theatre artist. A Midwesterner by way of Texas now living in Los Angeles, Hannah has been developing original theatrical performance for two decades, primarily with the Rude Mechs and with Salvage Vanguard Theater. Her work with the Rude Mechs includes writing Field Guide and Now Now Oh Now, and touring nationally with The Method Gun. Hannah's plays have been seen in Austin, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Miami, New Haven, New Orleans, Cape Cod, Vancouver, Bulgaria, and soon-to-be St. Louis and Santa Barbara. Additionally Hannah has developed work with Paper Chairs, Physical Plant, Sibyl Kempson & New Dramatists, Jennifer Kidwell, Harbor Stage Company, and Underbelly. Her theatrical education includes an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, a BA from Dartmouth College, and a certificate of physical theatre from Dell’Arte International.

Plays

  • Three Shitty Sons by Hannah Kenah
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, holiday, movement/physical
    THREE SHITTY SONS is the story of three shitty sons who love the holidays and, in other news, are plotting their mother's death. As Mamu scrapes around the house enduring the torments of the idiot sons she raised, a lonely narrator finds a way to insert herself into the family’s dysfunction. A brutally-premised homage to Wilder's examinations of life and afterlife, this disheveled comedy mucks around...
    THREE SHITTY SONS is the story of three shitty sons who love the holidays and, in other news, are plotting their mother's death. As Mamu scrapes around the house enduring the torments of the idiot sons she raised, a lonely narrator finds a way to insert herself into the family’s dysfunction. A brutally-premised homage to Wilder's examinations of life and afterlife, this disheveled comedy mucks around in complicated renderings of gender, sentiment, and family ties.
  • With Great Difficulty Alice Sits by Hannah Kenah
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, horror, movement/physical
    WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY ALICE SITS is the story of Alice, who sits (and sits and sits and sits) in a chair, weighed down by boredom, terror, and biology. She is cheered on by a husband who is brutally excited about the imminent future. Eventually Alice’s belly grows so large it eclipses her. A cruel child named Fireclay and an exhausted House Call Doctor contribute to this story of a pregnancy gone surreal.
  • Kitty Hawk or Kill Devil by Hannah Kenah
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    8–11
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    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic, experimental, movement/physical
    KITTY HAWK OR KILL DEVIL engages in the turf war between Ohio and North Carolina, landing firmly on the side of Ohio, where aviation was born. As the Wright Brothers search for a perfect testing ground, a multi-generational, semi-fictional family of Ohioans wrestle with the Kitty Hawk betrayal. Meanwhile Michael Collins, the third astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission, waits on the dark side of the Moon as Neil...
    KITTY HAWK OR KILL DEVIL engages in the turf war between Ohio and North Carolina, landing firmly on the side of Ohio, where aviation was born. As the Wright Brothers search for a perfect testing ground, a multi-generational, semi-fictional family of Ohioans wrestle with the Kitty Hawk betrayal. Meanwhile Michael Collins, the third astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission, waits on the dark side of the Moon as Neil and Buzz walk in the light of all that glory. Kitty Hawk or Kill Devil is a play about our country's obsession with greatness and about those of us (most of us) who live only in proximity to it.
  • Everything is Established by Hannah Kenah
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, farce, movement/physical
    EVERYTHING IS ESTABLISHED is the story of two hapless servants, Montgomery and Plaster, who continue to inhabit the home of their deceased employer Mr. Albert. The servants are luxuriating in their new found freedom, until the arrival of Sally, a mail-order bride, forces them to reckon once again with tyranny and servitude. This tightly woven, highly physical comedy is part farce, part theatre of the absurd, part ghost story.