Kallan Dana

Kallan Dana is a writer originally from Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University. Her plays include RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (2023 O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2023 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2024 Fault Line Theater Irons in the Fire Semifinalist), LOBSTER (2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist) Lying (2022 Princess Grace Award Semifinalist), Love Story (2022 Bramble Theater Unfinished Works Festival Winner), The Great Hunger (The Tank), and Playdate (Dixon Place, funded by Jerome Foundation Grant). She is a member of the 2023-2024 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers’ Group, a New Georges affiliated artist, and a founding member/leader of the writer-director group TAG at The Tank. She also makes work with...

Kallan Dana is a writer originally from Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University. Her plays include RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (2023 O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2023 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2024 Fault Line Theater Irons in the Fire Semifinalist), LOBSTER (2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist) Lying (2022 Princess Grace Award Semifinalist), Love Story (2022 Bramble Theater Unfinished Works Festival Winner), The Great Hunger (The Tank), and Playdate (Dixon Place, funded by Jerome Foundation Grant). She is a member of the 2023-2024 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers’ Group, a New Georges affiliated artist, and a founding member/leader of the writer-director group TAG at The Tank. She also makes work with her companies Needy Lover and Trove.

Upcoming:

RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR. World Premiere Production with The Hearth and The Connelly Theater Upstairs, December 2024. Workshop Production with Bramble Theater in Chicago, February 2025.

LOBSTER. University Premiere Production, Northwestern University, March 2025.

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Scripts

RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR

by Kallan Dana

10
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.