Katie Kirk

Katie Kirk is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Northwest Indiana who writes about class, gossip, and the "hedgehog's dilemma".

Katie received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation screenwriting award and was a finalist for ABC Signature's Emerging Playwright Initiative. Plays include Under Review (workshopped at Sewanee Writers' Conference; semifinalist: O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Theater's Terrence McNally New Works Incubator), The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue (Carnegie Mellon New Works), EGGMAN (Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award), and ONE HUNDRED BEES (published with Concord Theatricals).

Katie's a board member of CMU's New York Drama Alumni Community and teaches playwriting through the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. MFA: Carnegie Mellon.

Katie Kirk is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Northwest Indiana who writes about class, gossip, and the "hedgehog's dilemma".

Katie received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation screenwriting award and was a finalist for ABC Signature's Emerging Playwright Initiative. Plays include Under Review (workshopped at Sewanee Writers' Conference; semifinalist: O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Theater's Terrence McNally New Works Incubator), The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue (Carnegie Mellon New Works), EGGMAN (Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award), and ONE HUNDRED BEES (published with Concord Theatricals).

Katie's a board member of CMU's New York Drama Alumni Community and teaches playwriting through the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. MFA: Carnegie Mellon.

Scripts

fursona non grata

by Katie Kirk

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama

On the hottest week of the summer, everyone's wearing shorts, bikinis, and...fursuits? At the year's largest furry convention, a group of five people (plus one hand puppet) come together to have fun and be their authentic selves. But as the week progresses, their chosen family's in danger of falling apart. Who gets to decide what's good for someone else?

On the hottest week of the summer, everyone's wearing shorts, bikinis, and...fursuits? At the year's largest furry convention, a group of five people (plus one hand puppet) come together to have fun and be their authentic selves. But as the week progresses, their chosen family's in danger of falling apart. Who gets to decide what's good for someone else?

Under Review

by Katie Kirk

Cast Size
5
Genre
period,
tragedy

It’s 1957, near the end of the second Red Scare. The overwhelmingly male Iowa Writers’ Workshop is one of very few programs for serious fiction writers. In this hyper-competitive environment, five women form genuine friendships and test those bonds while pursuing career-launching publication opportunities. Under Review is a play about ambition, complicity, and the violence of tokenism.

It’s 1957, near the end of the second Red Scare. The overwhelmingly male Iowa Writers’ Workshop is one of very few programs for serious fiction writers. In this hyper-competitive environment, five women form genuine friendships and test those bonds while pursuing career-launching publication opportunities. Under Review is a play about ambition, complicity, and the violence of tokenism.

The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue

by Katie Kirk

1
Cast Size
7
Genre
dark comedy,
horror,
tragedy

Corey's just bought a house in the suburbs, ready for a new start. Life's great! Except...Corey's next-door neighbor Adam has been harboring a grudge against his twin brother Thomas, and he'll stop at nothing to achieve retribution. Even if it tears the whole neighborhood apart.

Loosely inspired by Seneca's grisly revenge play Thyestes, The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue is part dark comedy, part bleak...

Corey's just bought a house in the suburbs, ready for a new start. Life's great! Except...Corey's next-door neighbor Adam has been harboring a grudge against his twin brother Thomas, and he'll stop at nothing to achieve retribution. Even if it tears the whole neighborhood apart.

Loosely inspired by Seneca's grisly revenge play Thyestes, The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue is part dark comedy, part bleak horror-tragedy—set in the most terrifying place imaginable: modern American suburbia.

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EGGMAN

by Katie Kirk

1
Cast Size
10—16
Genre
comedy

The community theatre’s putting on the worst play ever. The grad students are burned out. And—oh yeah, the Beatles broke up in 1966. With a little help from some questionable snake costumes, poorly-wielded stress balls, and the grandson of alternate-universe Ringo Starr, EGGMAN asks: can several unlikely collaborators “come together” to create meaningful work?
Or, like the humble egg, will they…crack?

The community theatre’s putting on the worst play ever. The grad students are burned out. And—oh yeah, the Beatles broke up in 1966. With a little help from some questionable snake costumes, poorly-wielded stress balls, and the grandson of alternate-universe Ringo Starr, EGGMAN asks: can several unlikely collaborators “come together” to create meaningful work?
Or, like the humble egg, will they…crack?

Centripetal Force

by Katie Kirk

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama

Three siblings, three parties, three moments in time. Katrin, Trix, and Maybel try to escape the orbit of their childhood home, but something keeps pulling them back. A play in three circles.

Three siblings, three parties, three moments in time. Katrin, Trix, and Maybel try to escape the orbit of their childhood home, but something keeps pulling them back. A play in three circles.