Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos

Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos

Currently living in a Midwest cornfield, Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos is a small town American playwright raised in Alabama, New Mexico, and West Texas. Her aesthetic view is a fusion of Southern Appalachian and Southwest U.S. culture and heavily influenced by the literary genres of Magical Realism, Romanticism and Gothicism. She’s the Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition, a Finalist at the Great...
Currently living in a Midwest cornfield, Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos is a small town American playwright raised in Alabama, New Mexico, and West Texas. Her aesthetic view is a fusion of Southern Appalachian and Southwest U.S. culture and heavily influenced by the literary genres of Magical Realism, Romanticism and Gothicism. She’s the Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition, a Finalist at the Great Plains Theatre Conference, multiple Finalist and Semifinalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and a Semifinalist for both The O’Neill Playwrights Conference and Princess Grace Playwriting Award. A recipient of the Indiana Individual Artist Grant for playwrighting, her plays have been produced or developed by theaters from NYC to LA, Chicago to Chile, and published by YouthPLAYS. Kelly has a BFA in Theatre Arts from the University of New Mexico and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Plays

  • A Poison Squad of Whispering Women by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 15
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 5 more
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    Keyword: KKK, corruption + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, mystery/thriller, period, political, tragedy
    Keyword: KKK, corruption, immigration, nationalism, prohibition, truth, Indiana
    Finalist - BAPF Playwrights Foundation

    FULL LENGTH - In 1924, an unlikely union of women lead a righteous whisper campaign against the Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan, exacting a bitter reckoning that ends in the brutal murder of one of their own.
  • The Hall of Final Ruin by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 12
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 7 more
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    Keyword: death, family
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, period, political
    Keyword: death, family
    Semi-finalist - Princess Grace, BAPF Playwrights Foundation, Garry Marshall

    FULL LENGTH - Someday, the ‘madrina’ of 19th century Santa Fe would like to die a good Catholic death and be buried in her beloved church, La Parrochia. But Death is coming sooner than she thinks and the arrival of a needy Protestant, a fortune in gold, and the invasion of the American Army complicate her perfect exit...
    Semi-finalist - Princess Grace, BAPF Playwrights Foundation, Garry Marshall

    FULL LENGTH - Someday, the ‘madrina’ of 19th century Santa Fe would like to die a good Catholic death and be buried in her beloved church, La Parrochia. But Death is coming sooner than she thinks and the arrival of a needy Protestant, a fortune in gold, and the invasion of the American Army complicate her perfect exit into Purgatory. In order to save her family from ruin and earn her way into Heaven, the gambler must orchestrate a final, high-stakes card game in which all is both lost and won.
  • To Tread Among Serpents by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 10
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    Cast: 
    4–10
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 3 more
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    Keyword: media, truth + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, mystery/thriller, period
    Keyword: media, truth, true crime
    Semi-Finalist - O'Neill

    FULL LENGTH - In the summer of 1959, an ambitious magazine reporter is sent deep into Southern Appalachia to cover the gruesome ax murders of two men. The killer, a religious snake handler with shady connections to organized crime, embraces the writer’s strategy to remake her into a sexy, celebrity-like cover girl. An escalating battle for control emerges when the...
    Semi-Finalist - O'Neill

    FULL LENGTH - In the summer of 1959, an ambitious magazine reporter is sent deep into Southern Appalachia to cover the gruesome ax murders of two men. The killer, a religious snake handler with shady connections to organized crime, embraces the writer’s strategy to remake her into a sexy, celebrity-like cover girl. An escalating battle for control emerges when the women’s dual pursuit of illicit wealth and lurid public adoration brings out the Devil in them both.
  • Second Death of a Mad Wife by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 13
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    Cast: 
    7–11
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    Genre: biography, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: insanity, memory + 1 more
    Genre: biography, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, horror, mystery/thriller, period
    Keyword: insanity, memory, murder
    (60-75 MINS) Whatever happened to Jack the Ripper’s wife? Bunny Maybrick began life in an opulent Alabama mansion and is ending it in a squalid shack full of cats in rural Connecticut. In another life, under a more notorious name, she was sentenced to life in a Victorian prison for killing her British husband. Now old and preparing for death, Bunny has given away most of her meager belongings, but the heavy...
    (60-75 MINS) Whatever happened to Jack the Ripper’s wife? Bunny Maybrick began life in an opulent Alabama mansion and is ending it in a squalid shack full of cats in rural Connecticut. In another life, under a more notorious name, she was sentenced to life in a Victorian prison for killing her British husband. Now old and preparing for death, Bunny has given away most of her meager belongings, but the heavy contents of her soul are harder to leave behind. That is until a local prep school boy, Theo Voss, becomes an accomplice in Bunny’s meandering, mad confession – one that includes adultery, arsenic addiction, and murder. Second Death of a Mad Wife is about a disturbing relationship between two outcasts who share secrets and an appetite for the macabre.
  • The Resurrection of the Publick Universal Friend by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 2 more
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    Keyword: faith, philosophy + 2 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, period
    Keyword: faith, philosophy, truth, New York
    [seeking workshop] (75 mins) - A wayward disciple returns to keep a vigil with the corpse of the prophet he once betrayed. But he’s confronted by the charlatan’s most zealous supporter, who uses the former follower’s own transgressions to undermine his search for the truth. What does it cost the soul to lie if it comforts the faithful?
  • El Loro, El Gato y El Espiritu Santo (or The Parrot, the Cat and the Holy Ghost) by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 20
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, fable/folktale
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    Keyword: death, crime + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, fable/folktale
    Keyword: death, crime, religion, Texas
    10 MINUTE - With their pious neighbor's precious parrot dead and their cat the prime suspect, three sisters are about to engage in the mother of all cover-ups.
  • Sock Puppet Fetish Noir by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 13
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: sock puppets, noir + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce
    Keyword: sock puppets, noir, fetish, crime
    10 MINUTE - Jane's socks are missing, and she needs the help of "Darrell", a sock puppet investigator, to find them. But "Darrell" has issues. As it turns out, so does Jane.
  • Closedbook by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: death, hacking + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: death, hacking, social media
    10 MINUTE - A "vampire" computer virus unleashes the Dead from Facebook.
  • End of an Era by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: revenge, ageism + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, satire
    Keyword: revenge, ageism, theatre
    10 MINUTE - The old ‘Lady Addington’ is being retired from the show and replaced by the new (and younger) ‘Lady Addington,’ but not before the more experienced diva teaches the upstart actress a few brutal, backstage, battlefield tactics.
  • The Show Must NOT Go On! by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 12
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, farce
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    Keyword: Shakespeare, Winning
    Genre: comedy, farce
    Keyword: Shakespeare, Winning
    10 MINUTE - The loss of a key actor in a community production of Hamlet presents the opportunity of a lifetime for the theatre’s longtime janitor whose zealous enthusiasm gives all new meaning to the expression “take the stage!”
  • Suicide Hotline by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 15
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: missed connections, bro culture + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: missed connections, bro culture, wrong number
    10 MINUTE - Jim can’t let go of a wrong number to the Suicide Hotline.
  • The Garden Path to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: gardening, death + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: gardening, death, neighbors, crime
    10 MINUTES - The friendly HOA president is looking forward to spring, the pandemic's end, and Game Day! But his neighbor, an unrepentant master gardener, needs just a few minutes of his time to help her with some simple tasks in the garden. In a matter of minutes, the president finds himself on the other side of the law when the yard chores turn hilariously criminal.
  • The Girl in the Wall by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    Recommendations: 11
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: death, gothic + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, faith-based, horror, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: death, gothic, supernatural, religion
    MONOLOGUE - Steeped in religion and the supernatural, an Appalachian woman explains death, dying, and damnation through a pivotal childhood memory.