Max Keane

Max Keane is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Selected writing includes The United States v. Leg of Diane Herrera (Pipeline PlayLab Finalist), Wondergeist (Terrence McNally New Works Incubator Semi-Finalist; Theaterlab, Brick Aux), Keynote at Necro-Con (The Brick Theater), The Emancipation of Sugar and Baby (Weasel Fest ’23/The Brick), Break Room (The Wild Project), Number Six Down (Manhattan Rep), Psychodrama (Muhlenberg College). His work has also been supported and developed by the Workshop Theater and Shakespeare on the Sound. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College.

Max Keane is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Selected writing includes The United States v. Leg of Diane Herrera (Pipeline PlayLab Finalist), Wondergeist (Terrence McNally New Works Incubator Semi-Finalist; Theaterlab, Brick Aux), Keynote at Necro-Con (The Brick Theater), The Emancipation of Sugar and Baby (Weasel Fest ’23/The Brick), Break Room (The Wild Project), Number Six Down (Manhattan Rep), Psychodrama (Muhlenberg College). His work has also been supported and developed by the Workshop Theater and Shakespeare on the Sound. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College.

Scripts

The United States v. Leg of Diane Herrera

by Max Keane

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
political

A near-future American carceral state targets a rugged middle school art teacher with indefinite detention, claiming her prosthetic leg was implicated in drug trafficking many years ago and therefore must be seized, per civil asset forfeiture laws.

A near-future American carceral state targets a rugged middle school art teacher with indefinite detention, claiming her prosthetic leg was implicated in drug trafficking many years ago and therefore must be seized, per civil asset forfeiture laws.

Miles & Nico

by Max Keane

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
fantasy,
horror,
romantic comedy

After fleeing a fascist coup, vampire-in-denial Miles Eaton was conscripted to fight the autocrats who stole his home and ripped apart his family. During a search and rescue mission, Miles falls into deeper trouble when Nico, an offbeat and decidedly chaotic-neutral demon bartender living Below, tries to visit his mother on the surface world. Nico botches the spell and summons Miles instead. Trapped in the...

After fleeing a fascist coup, vampire-in-denial Miles Eaton was conscripted to fight the autocrats who stole his home and ripped apart his family. During a search and rescue mission, Miles falls into deeper trouble when Nico, an offbeat and decidedly chaotic-neutral demon bartender living Below, tries to visit his mother on the surface world. Nico botches the spell and summons Miles instead. Trapped in the underworld, Miles has no choice but to confront long-buried truths, and surrender to love under the eye of imminent doom.

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