Kristin Slaney

Kristin Slaney

Kristin Slaney is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. Selected full-length works include Hockey Messiah (Manhattan Theatre Club’s Ted Snowdon Reading Series, Winner of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Columbia@Roundabout Reading Series), Un-Utero (Finalist for the Columbia@Roundbabout Reading Series, Semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), King of Berlin (...
Kristin Slaney is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. Selected full-length works include Hockey Messiah (Manhattan Theatre Club’s Ted Snowdon Reading Series, Winner of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Columbia@Roundabout Reading Series), Un-Utero (Finalist for the Columbia@Roundbabout Reading Series, Semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), King of Berlin (Doppler Effect Productions, the 2017 Queer Acts Festival), After Eepersip Disappeared (Ship’s Company Theatre), COULD THIS MEETING HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL (Spicy Witch Productions), She Herself is a Haunted House (Fountain School of the Arts) and David For Queen (Halifax Theatre for Young
People). Kristin is an alum of EST’s Youngblood playwriting group, and she is a current
member of Pipeline Theatre’s PlayLab. MFA: Columbia University.

Plays

  • HOCKEY MESSIAH by Kristin Slaney
    Cast: 
    6–14
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: hockey, sports
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: hockey, sports
    Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, 2001. Shawn is a thirteen-year-old hockey prodigy, on a track leading him to the NHL. Viola is the weird girl who lives up the street. When Shawn and Viola collide as teens, they begin an unlikely friendship that follows them throughout their lives, constantly complicating both their understandings of what it means to be an adult. HOCKEY MESSIAH is a tender comedy about success and...
    Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, 2001. Shawn is a thirteen-year-old hockey prodigy, on a track leading him to the NHL. Viola is the weird girl who lives up the street. When Shawn and Viola collide as teens, they begin an unlikely friendship that follows them throughout their lives, constantly complicating both their understandings of what it means to be an adult. HOCKEY MESSIAH is a tender comedy about success and love and growing up and hockey.
  • Welcome Week by Kristin Slaney
    Cast: 
    4–10
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    Genre: dark comedy, satire
    Genre: dark comedy, satire
    Loosely inspired by a news story from 2012, Welcome Week is about a woman who pretends to be a freshman at Columbia during the first week of orientation, despite not being enrolled. Lorraine, a woman in her 30’s, never went to college, and so when she finds herself accepted by a group of eighteen-year-olds, she pretends to be a teen so she can experience the freedom she associates with college—until an on-...
    Loosely inspired by a news story from 2012, Welcome Week is about a woman who pretends to be a freshman at Columbia during the first week of orientation, despite not being enrolled. Lorraine, a woman in her 30’s, never went to college, and so when she finds herself accepted by a group of eighteen-year-olds, she pretends to be a teen so she can experience the freedom she associates with college—until an on-campus tragedy leads her to rethink everything she knew about the Ivy League. Welcome Week is a dark comedy about dorm rooms and experimentation and growing up.
  • Un-Utero by Kristin Slaney
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: comedy, political
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    Keyword: abortion, egg donation + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, political
    Keyword: abortion, egg donation, feminism, friendship, women
    Mel (an undocumented, insurance-less Canadian) becomes pregnant and needs an abortion, but can't afford it- which leads her best friend Becca to donate eggs under the table in order to help Mel. What follows is a comedy about female friendship, fertility, feminism, and the age-old question: "What would Judith Butler do?"
  • King of Berlin by Kristin Slaney
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: musical, period
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    Keyword: Berlin, Weimar Republic + 5 more
    Genre: musical, period
    Keyword: Berlin, Weimar Republic, queer, women, Lesbian, World War II, cabaret
    It's 1945 Berlin. As the war ends, Astrid (a former Weimar-era drag king), her girlfriend Margot, and their friend Helen take shelter in the shell of their former queer club The Eldorado-- until a Russian soldier comes upon their hiding place, prompting Astrid to pretend to be a boy in order to protect herself and Margot. Meanwhile, Astrid is haunted by the ghost of Lotte, a genderqueer female impersonator...
    It's 1945 Berlin. As the war ends, Astrid (a former Weimar-era drag king), her girlfriend Margot, and their friend Helen take shelter in the shell of their former queer club The Eldorado-- until a Russian soldier comes upon their hiding place, prompting Astrid to pretend to be a boy in order to protect herself and Margot. Meanwhile, Astrid is haunted by the ghost of Lotte, a genderqueer female impersonator who died on their last night in the club in 1933. KING OF BERLIN is told through cabaret music and deals with the true history of the mass sexual assault that befell in the women of Berlin in 1945. It's about love, war, and standing up in the face of tyrants.
  • COULD THIS MEETING HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL by Kristin Slaney
    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: business, women + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, satire
    Keyword: business, women, sexual harassment, roger ailes, Bill O'Reilly, glass ceiling
    Mary and Liz have been "frenemies" since college. Now working for the same company, Mary recently filed a complaint about a promotion she feels she should have been considered for, prompting Liz to instigate a merger with another company-- that happens to be run by Mary's former boss, who sexually harassed her. COULD THIS MEETING HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL is a comedic take on Schiller's Mary Stuart...
    Mary and Liz have been "frenemies" since college. Now working for the same company, Mary recently filed a complaint about a promotion she feels she should have been considered for, prompting Liz to instigate a merger with another company-- that happens to be run by Mary's former boss, who sexually harassed her. COULD THIS MEETING HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL is a comedic take on Schiller's Mary Stuart which transposes British rule into an corporate American context, but which also considers "What happens if, in this adaptation, instead of Mary getting her head (figuratively) chopped off, she figures out how to destroy the entire system?"
  • After Eepersip Disappeared by Kristin Slaney
    Cast: 
    5–8
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Nova Scotia, Parrsboro + 1 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, docudrama/historic, period
    Keyword: Nova Scotia, Parrsboro, 1930s
    Barbara Newhall Follett published her first novel at age twelve, stopped writing entirely by age sixteen, and disappeared off the face of the earth in 1939 at age twenty-five. That's where the facts about Newhall Follette end, and that's where "After Eepersip Disappeared" begins, positing- what if Newhall Follett ran away to the small town of Parrboro, Nova Scotia, to become a pirate?...
    Barbara Newhall Follett published her first novel at age twelve, stopped writing entirely by age sixteen, and disappeared off the face of the earth in 1939 at age twenty-five. That's where the facts about Newhall Follette end, and that's where "After Eepersip Disappeared" begins, positing- what if Newhall Follett ran away to the small town of Parrboro, Nova Scotia, to become a pirate? Inspired by the true story and actual writings of Barbara Newhall Follett, "After Eepersip Disappeared" is about the moment when you take control of your own circumstances and realizeit's entirely possible you're not a "nice woman" after all.
  • The unnatural journey of St. Valerie to Nova Scotia by Kristin Slaney
    Cast: 
    6–16
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Art and Artists, Catholic + 4 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Art and Artists, Catholic, saint, St. Valerie, France, Nova Scotia
    In the year 280 in Limoges, France, a woman named Valerie has her head chopped off when she decides to become a nun to avoid marriage. She walks through the town holding her head above her body and then ascends to the clouds. In the year 2014 in Nova Scotia, Canada, an artist couple named Rachel and Lana find a dissembled statue of St. Valerie on their doorstep and decide to put the statue back together again...
    In the year 280 in Limoges, France, a woman named Valerie has her head chopped off when she decides to become a nun to avoid marriage. She walks through the town holding her head above her body and then ascends to the clouds. In the year 2014 in Nova Scotia, Canada, an artist couple named Rachel and Lana find a dissembled statue of St. Valerie on their doorstep and decide to put the statue back together again. "The unnatural journey of St. Valerie to Nova Scotia" is a comedy about relationships, artist competition, and the possibility that maybe some of the Catholic female saints were very sneaky lesbians.