Max Kennel

Max Kennel (He/him) is an award-winning playwright who is currently based in San Diego, CA. He is also a director, improvisational theater actor, photographer, screenwriter, and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Horror Writers Association. He recently acquired a BA in Theater Arts from California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo with a minor in MAST (Media Arts, Society, and Technology. During his time at Cal Poly, Max directed and voice acted in a play he wrote titled, The Story of Jimmy Kaplingus for Cal Poly Theatre and Dance's annual student directed production for which he received awards for the script from the Kennedy Center and Cal Poly Arts. He can be reached at [email protected]. When he isn't working on theatre Max can be found writing...

Max Kennel (He/him) is an award-winning playwright who is currently based in San Diego, CA. He is also a director, improvisational theater actor, photographer, screenwriter, and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Horror Writers Association. He recently acquired a BA in Theater Arts from California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo with a minor in MAST (Media Arts, Society, and Technology. During his time at Cal Poly, Max directed and voice acted in a play he wrote titled, The Story of Jimmy Kaplingus for Cal Poly Theatre and Dance's annual student directed production for which he received awards for the script from the Kennedy Center and Cal Poly Arts. He can be reached at [email protected]. When he isn't working on theatre Max can be found writing articles about the finances of Magic the Gathering.

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Scripts

The Story of Jimmy Kaplingus

by Max Kennel

3
Cast Size
8—13
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
immersive

[Full Length] Jimmy Kaplingus is a crab. A crab trapped in a tank at a seafood restaurant awaiting a delectable demise. As surrounding crabs, Chad, Brad, Barbara, Bob, and Brinley, attempt to escape, Jimmy chooses only to watch the cascade of love, death, and existentialism that befalls them. As this all occurs the Robo-Narrator strives to answer a single question: Why does Jimmy choose to watch? Who knows...

[Full Length] Jimmy Kaplingus is a crab. A crab trapped in a tank at a seafood restaurant awaiting a delectable demise. As surrounding crabs, Chad, Brad, Barbara, Bob, and Brinley, attempt to escape, Jimmy chooses only to watch the cascade of love, death, and existentialism that befalls them. As this all occurs the Robo-Narrator strives to answer a single question: Why does Jimmy choose to watch? Who knows. Jimmy is just a crab. Right?

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Artificial Sunset

by Max Kennel

2
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
movement/physical

[10-Minute Play] Content Warning: Domestic abuse, addiction, and mention of drugging. While Friday celebrates her 21st birthday in a casino, she shares a heartfelt dance with the ethereal casino worker, Chip. As Friday endures everything in her power to reclaim the high of their initial encounter, she discovers if her fervently blossoming infatuation is toward someone she needs or something cold-heartedly...

[10-Minute Play] Content Warning: Domestic abuse, addiction, and mention of drugging. While Friday celebrates her 21st birthday in a casino, she shares a heartfelt dance with the ethereal casino worker, Chip. As Friday endures everything in her power to reclaim the high of their initial encounter, she discovers if her fervently blossoming infatuation is toward someone she needs or something cold-heartedly ambivalent to her existence she has to escape.

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Feeling: An Emotional State or Reaction

by Max Kennel

3
Cast Size
2
Genre
fantasy,
young audiences

[10-Minute Play] Mary, a blind mole person, and SIR (short for Social Interaction Replicator) a robot with sensory processing issues, come to an understanding about each other over a rotten tangerine that SIR can't stop caressing.

[10-Minute Play] Mary, a blind mole person, and SIR (short for Social Interaction Replicator) a robot with sensory processing issues, come to an understanding about each other over a rotten tangerine that SIR can't stop caressing.

A Story by Anonymous

by Max Kennel

Cast Size
1
Genre
drama,
experimental

[Monologue] Drew is a story no one wants to take credit for bringing into this world. Drew hopes to find the creative recognition they never got from their writer through you, the prospective audience or reader. Content Warning: Sexual themes and implications of sexual violence.

[Monologue] Drew is a story no one wants to take credit for bringing into this world. Drew hopes to find the creative recognition they never got from their writer through you, the prospective audience or reader. Content Warning: Sexual themes and implications of sexual violence.

Looks Like Love

by Max Kennel

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
mystery/thriller

[10-Minute Play] Karl and Catalina have to pick up the pieces of their virtual relationship after its paradigm of is irrevocably changed.

[10-Minute Play] Karl and Catalina have to pick up the pieces of their virtual relationship after its paradigm of is irrevocably changed.

Jimmy Kaplingus Saves Christmas

by Max Kennel

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
farce,
holiday

[10-Minute Play] Jimmy Kaplingus is a crab, a crab that must save Christmas while still trapped in a tank at at seafood restaurant in this 10-minute non-canonical spin off adventure. If you have not read the original Story of Jimmy Kaplingus, I recommend you read that first get the maximum amount of enjoyment from this play.

[10-Minute Play] Jimmy Kaplingus is a crab, a crab that must save Christmas while still trapped in a tank at at seafood restaurant in this 10-minute non-canonical spin off adventure. If you have not read the original Story of Jimmy Kaplingus, I recommend you read that first get the maximum amount of enjoyment from this play.