Kallan Dana

Kallan Dana

Kallan Dana is a writer and performer. Her plays have been performed at The Tank and Dixon Place and she is a member of the Citadel of Playwrights writing group. She studied at Skidmore College and the National Theater Institute, and she is currently an MFA candidate in Playwriting and Screenwriting at Northwestern University (class of 2023).

Plays

  • Racecar Racecar Racecar by Kallan Dana
    Recommendations: 9
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy
    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!
  • Lying by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, experimental
    Genre: comedy, experimental
    Something awful happened to Elizabeth when she was a teenager. She will tell you a story about it now.
  • The Great Hunger by Kallan Dana
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    The year? 1849. The place? A Dingle workhouse! In an anachronistic and satirical rendering of the Irish Potato Famine, Emer, an Irish orphan, schemes and manipulates her way out of a miserable workhouse, only to struggle with guilt in the aftermath of this escape.
  • Transgressions by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Willow's mother disappears again and again and again and again and again and again.
  • Basement by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    V and Tom are married. They live in a basement, surrounded by their hoarded possessions. Love is beautiful.
  • Love Story! by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, romantic comedy, satire
    Y2K is coming up and the world is ending for real. More importantly--June's totally unlucky in love!
  • Playdate by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    11–50
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: Playboy Mansion, Hugh Hefner + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fantasy, farce, horror, political, satire
    Keyword: Playboy Mansion, Hugh Hefner, Playboy Bunnies, feminist, feminism, nightmare, pop culture
    Hugh Hefner wakes up one morning and realizes that his home doesn’t feel like his home anymore. His kids are keeping secrets from him, his Bunnies are nowhere to be found, and his house is haunted by ghosts and demons. It’s the last day of Mr. Hefner’s life, but before his entire empire crumbles to the ground, he’ll have to face his sons, his first wife, his twin-sister girlfriends, and the spirit of Marilyn...
    Hugh Hefner wakes up one morning and realizes that his home doesn’t feel like his home anymore. His kids are keeping secrets from him, his Bunnies are nowhere to be found, and his house is haunted by ghosts and demons. It’s the last day of Mr. Hefner’s life, but before his entire empire crumbles to the ground, he’ll have to face his sons, his first wife, his twin-sister girlfriends, and the spirit of Marilyn Monroe. Playdate re-imagines the Playboy Mansion not as it is in reality, but as it exists in our dreams and nightmares.

    Recent: Commissioned Workshop Production at Dixon Place (September 2019)