Katelynn Kenney

KATELYNN KENNEY (she/her) is a mixed-race Filipina-American artist last from South Dakota, who grew up running around Air Force bases across the US and overseas. Her plays have been produced and developed by The Tank, Brooklyn College, Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts, the Skeleton Rep, Monstrous Little Theatre Company, FEAST at Under St. Marks, the Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective, Cohesion Theatre Company, Thin Space Productions, Prospect Theater Company, and the Claire Donaldson New Play Festival. She studied at Primary Stages, Augustana University, and has most recently received her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College (studying with Erin Courtney, Tina Satter, Elana Greenfield, and Anne Washburn). Kenney was a finalist for the 2021 Sundance Uprise Grant...

KATELYNN KENNEY (she/her) is a mixed-race Filipina-American artist last from South Dakota, who grew up running around Air Force bases across the US and overseas. Her plays have been produced and developed by The Tank, Brooklyn College, Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of Performing Arts, the Skeleton Rep, Monstrous Little Theatre Company, FEAST at Under St. Marks, the Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective, Cohesion Theatre Company, Thin Space Productions, Prospect Theater Company, and the Claire Donaldson New Play Festival. She studied at Primary Stages, Augustana University, and has most recently received her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College (studying with Erin Courtney, Tina Satter, Elana Greenfield, and Anne Washburn). Kenney was a finalist for the 2021 Sundance Uprise Grant and was most recently awarded a 2021 Ma-Yi Micro Grant and a 2021 Himan Brown Award for her play 10 Years. She runs The Tank’s TV-writing group, the Pilot Program, and her pilot 86’D was named a quarterfinalist for The Script Lab’s Free Screenplay Contest 2021. She is currently writing film coverage for WarnerMedia and freelancing, learning to manage her chronic illness, and researching Filipino monsters for her next project. Her works share a dark comedic bite and a healthy dose of magic.

Scripts

10 YEARS

by Katelynn Kenney

Synopsis

A climate-conscious Etsy store owner raises her child in her studio apartment over these next 10 years—through them, we experience Earth’s rearing of humanity and our rebellion against the planet that birthed us. Through vastness and intimacy, 10 YEARS questions and wrestles with our agency in the waves of the climate crisis already crashing around and against us. As the child's imaginary friends, you, the...

A climate-conscious Etsy store owner raises her child in her studio apartment over these next 10 years—through them, we experience Earth’s rearing of humanity and our rebellion against the planet that birthed us. Through vastness and intimacy, 10 YEARS questions and wrestles with our agency in the waves of the climate crisis already crashing around and against us. As the child's imaginary friends, you, the audience, may or may not affect the course of their life, and our future.

Void

by Katelynn Kenney

Synopsis

A timeless room, a little white stone, a wish.
Helen, an aspiring actress stuck in her hometown, stumbles upon a stranger’s suicide attempt in her own bedroom. And Joan, suicidal Filipino folklore enthusiast and self-proclaimed relative, knows that Helen is at a fork in the road herself.
With evocative spectacle and a dusting of dark humor, Void delves into the relationships formed between strangers and with...

A timeless room, a little white stone, a wish.
Helen, an aspiring actress stuck in her hometown, stumbles upon a stranger’s suicide attempt in her own bedroom. And Joan, suicidal Filipino folklore enthusiast and self-proclaimed relative, knows that Helen is at a fork in the road herself.
With evocative spectacle and a dusting of dark humor, Void delves into the relationships formed between strangers and with family, and the unsettling ease and complexities of both. The journey of these two women weaves a tightening loop of destiny and choice, of death and revival.

Hollowman

by Katelynn Kenney

Synopsis

A one-hit wonder director is haunted by the entity from his horror movie after the former child actor from the film goes missing. A fever dream of reconstructed memories and a sleep-deprived present that begs the question "What sins will we commit to create our art, and what price shall be paid?"

A one-hit wonder director is haunted by the entity from his horror movie after the former child actor from the film goes missing. A fever dream of reconstructed memories and a sleep-deprived present that begs the question "What sins will we commit to create our art, and what price shall be paid?"

Tornkid

by Katelynn Kenney

Synopsis

"Pizza or spam. Important, not important. Bad half, good half. American, Immigrant."

Tornkid just wants to belong: at school, at home, in their own skin. But that's a lot harder than it seems. So what does Tornkid do? Literally tear themself in two. Tricky thing is, their Other Half runs away with their voice, deep into a land both achingly familiar and unfamiliar. Be a part of Tornkid's elemental journey to...

"Pizza or spam. Important, not important. Bad half, good half. American, Immigrant."

Tornkid just wants to belong: at school, at home, in their own skin. But that's a lot harder than it seems. So what does Tornkid do? Literally tear themself in two. Tricky thing is, their Other Half runs away with their voice, deep into a land both achingly familiar and unfamiliar. Be a part of Tornkid's elemental journey to literally find themself.

Goblin Girls

by Katelynn Kenney

Synopsis

Mr. Bell was a walking cliche looking for a story to write, and he found one in an unlikely place —a panhandling performer named Puck. The story he was given: the origin and adventure of two girls raised by a goblin in a magical world hidden among New York City's underground. When Puck disappears, two girls find their way to Mr. Bell's doorstep, claiming Puck as their guardian. Their mission: to find their Puck...

Mr. Bell was a walking cliche looking for a story to write, and he found one in an unlikely place —a panhandling performer named Puck. The story he was given: the origin and adventure of two girls raised by a goblin in a magical world hidden among New York City's underground. When Puck disappears, two girls find their way to Mr. Bell's doorstep, claiming Puck as their guardian. Their mission: to find their Puck at all costs. And, when a secret goblin plot unravels, maybe save humanity in the process.

Goblin Girls is a contemporary fairytale, coming-of-age story, and morality play, about the misfits of the world and how humans can often be more monstrous than the monsters in their own stories.

Wendell & Pan

by Katelynn Kenney

Synopsis

11-year old Wendell Barnes and his family arrive at his ailing grandpa’s home, and he is welcomed by his best friend and 12-year old dead aunt, Pan. When Pan concludes that what may be best for Grandpa is to put him out of his misery, Wendell faces the choice of being at odds with his best friend or his own budding beliefs. Father and Mother desperately hope they can use this trip to mend the breaks within their...

11-year old Wendell Barnes and his family arrive at his ailing grandpa’s home, and he is welcomed by his best friend and 12-year old dead aunt, Pan. When Pan concludes that what may be best for Grandpa is to put him out of his misery, Wendell faces the choice of being at odds with his best friend or his own budding beliefs. Father and Mother desperately hope they can use this trip to mend the breaks within their family, and Kayla, Wendell’s older sister, finally tries to connect with the grandfather she never really knew and the brother she fears she may never truly understand. WENDELL AND PAN is a play about loneliness, the strange nature of grief, and that moment in your childhood that reverberates with every step you take into the adult world.