Kallan Dana

Kallan Dana is a playwright from Portland, Oregon. She has developed or presented work with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Hearth, The Tank, Bramble Theatre Company, Working Theater, The Cell, Portland Theater Festival, Dixon Place, Northwestern University, and Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Past productions include RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (The Hearth / A.R.T. NY) and "Lobster" (The Tank). She is a New Georges affiliated artist and 2025 Audrey Resident, and co-founder of the artist collaboration group TAG at the Tank. She received the 2025 National Theatre Conference Paul Green Award. MFA: Northwestern University.

Kallan Dana is a playwright from Portland, Oregon. She has developed or presented work with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Hearth, The Tank, Bramble Theatre Company, Working Theater, The Cell, Portland Theater Festival, Dixon Place, Northwestern University, and Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Past productions include RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (The Hearth / A.R.T. NY) and "Lobster" (The Tank). She is a New Georges affiliated artist and 2025 Audrey Resident, and co-founder of the artist collaboration group TAG at the Tank. She received the 2025 National Theatre Conference Paul Green Award. MFA: Northwestern University.

Scripts

RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR

by Kallan Dana

9
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy

A daughter and father embark on a shapeshifting road trip across the country, into the past, through the gelatinous terrain of their shared nightmares. Everything is great!

A daughter and father embark on a shapeshifting road trip across the country, into the past, through the gelatinous terrain of their shared nightmares. Everything is great!

Lying

by Kallan Dana

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
experimental

Something awful happened to Elizabeth when she was a teenager. She will tell you a story about it now.

Something awful happened to Elizabeth when she was a teenager. She will tell you a story about it now.

LOBSTER

by Kallan Dana

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental

Nora loves Patti Smith. Nora is Patti Smith. Nora is stoned out of her mind in the Chelsea Hotel, no, the Chelsea Hotel is her mind, actually, the Chelsea Hotel is an out-of-use portable classroom in the Pacific Northwest, but that portable is a breeding ground for young women (lobsters).

Nora loves Patti Smith. Nora is Patti Smith. Nora is stoned out of her mind in the Chelsea Hotel, no, the Chelsea Hotel is her mind, actually, the Chelsea Hotel is an out-of-use portable classroom in the Pacific Northwest, but that portable is a breeding ground for young women (lobsters).

Episodes

by Kallan Dana

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental

Kelly is rich; Carly is not. Carly's mom is making lasagna, beef stroganoff, sloppy joes, potato salad, green bean casserole, actually never mind she's on a diet—Wait, what? Kelly's mom didn't hear what you just said.

Kelly is rich; Carly is not. Carly's mom is making lasagna, beef stroganoff, sloppy joes, potato salad, green bean casserole, actually never mind she's on a diet—Wait, what? Kelly's mom didn't hear what you just said.

Transgressions

by Kallan Dana

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental

Willow's mother disappears again and again and again and again and again and again.

Willow's mother disappears again and again and again and again and again and again.