Mackenzie Raine Kirkman

(full length)
Window and Door love each other. They want nothing more than to find a comfortable and safe way to build a life together. With few viable options left, Window takes a chance on a brand-new type of housing that's delivered straight to you and supposedly built in a day but can the particle board withstand the weight of their dreams?

(full length)
Two bee researchers discover that one of their bees might have intelligence far beyond the norm. Between the impossibility of what is most definitely happening and the fear of what the world will do when it learns, the researchers and the bee try to figure out the best solution and realize some things are inextricably at odds.

(full length)
In a room with a mediator, a couple discusses their life, their relationship, the world, their children, and everything else that led to them requesting a divorce with a glowing button in the middle of the table that they can push to force the other to tell them the truth.

Content Note: Swearing, Brief Use of a Weapon
(full length)
A curator acquisitions a new piece of art, a boss tries to enforce the museum's rules, and New Art and Old Art are seemingly alive, striving to have meaning in a world that forces them to compete for limited space despite their similarities. Within the walls of the museum's storage area; they discuss art, observation, and the imperialist nature of museums. As Old Art and New Art bring each other deeper understanding the Curator has a realization that expands their mind beyond the confines of the very play that they're in.

Content Note: Physical violence, mild sexual situations, vomit, spitting
(full length)
Blue and Green are trapped in a room with no windows or doors. They don't know how they got there and they can't seem to find a way out. As they suffer at the hands of a mysterious figure, "the black stuff," and their own waning humanity, they begin to investigate what made them people in the first place and what price they're willing to pay for the chance to feel human again.

(ten minute)
A girl is slated to be executed as a wytch. Satan feels bad. He offers to help her become what she's accused in order to survive even if it might mean doing the unforgivable.

(ten minute)
In theory, the mouth-on-a-stick should help long-distance couples stay connected. If only it wasn't a mouth-on-a-stick.

(ten minute)
A human captures a monster that ransacked a nearby campsite but doesn't know what to do with them especially when the monster starts a discussion about their base-most nature and human social norms.

(ten minute)
In the 1800s, two teen boys wandered into the Linville Caverns of North Carolina on a whim. When they accidentally broke their lantern they were thrown into total darkness. This is a play about the conversation they might have had in the dark.

(ten minute)
In the near future, Adrianna shares her home with James; a companion. But as James begins to question his place in Adrianna's life they both start to explore the purpose of their relationship and what it means to be human.

Content Note: violence, imprisonment/shackled people, state-sanctioned violence and censorship
(one act)
Adapted from Dostoevsky's "Notes from a Dead House," "Man, the Creature" follows the story of Alexander Petrovich Goryanchinkov a facade created by Fyodor Dostoevsky to write about his experience as a prisoner in a Siberian katorga. Between moments of trauma and humor, Dostoevsky begins to realize that humanity is a much more complicated concept than he originally thought and more complicated still for Goryanchinkov; the person he's created to bear his story.

(an hours worth of one minute plays)
Written in collaboration with Kelley Feeman (https://kelleyfeeman.weebly.com/), this project chronicles the earlier days of an extended pandemic as we wrote one minute plays back and forth to each other. Inspired by the challenges we personally faced as artists, things we saw while out to get groceries or at work, and the internal challenges quarantine presented us with Kelley and I tried to make sense of the world around us the only way we knew how: art.

(three minute)
Three spies meet in a park early one winter night for coffee and spycraft. Or at least two of them thought as much.

(one minute)
(Selected from Silly and Sad and Serious and Hostile) Are you proud of where you're from? Do you feel welcome there? This is a play about missing a time when the answers to those questions was "yes," and wishing someone warned you when you were young.