Kirby Fields

Kirby Fields

I have an MFA from Carnegie Mellon. I am from Joplin, Missouri, but have lived in New York City for the past 10 years. I write character-driven plays that often attempt to redeem people who others might not consider worthy of redemption. I value all theater artists and believe in collaboration. I want nothing more than my characters to have a life beyond my hard drive.

Plays

  • Tape Don't Lie
    Joey, a former film-school student who now works in digital forensics for the San Diego District Attorney, manipulates the recording of a police shooting of an unarmed black man in an effort to control the narrative. All hell breaks loose, and when he tries to correct his mistake he finds that it's the media that is truly in control.
  • K Comma Joseph
    When Joseph K--a husband, soon-to-be father, and longtime clerk--finds himself accused of an ever-shifting crime he realizes that it is impossible to defend himself against his accusers (many of whom are guiltier than he is) and falls in with a group of revolutionaries whose willingness to act contrasts sharply with K’s prevailing sense of maintaining the status quo.
  • Huge in Japan
    When an aging rock band reunites to take advantage of a their old single now being a hit jingle in Japan, they have to recruit a singer from a karaoke bar to sing lead in the absence of their temperamental former singer who wants nothing to do with the reunion, that is until he sees the band's newfound success.
  • Summer Session with the Bones Brigade
    The American Middle West, 1988: A group of skaters turn against each other when one of them mysteriously disappears.
  • Lost/Not Found
    A trio of downtrodden New Yorkers detain a missing autistic girl with the hopes of driving up the reward for her safe return.