K Hurley

K Hurley

K Hurley (they/she) is a playwright and theater-maker living in Brooklyn. They were a 2019-2021 Soho Rep Writer Director Lab member, co-chaired by Jackie Sibblies Drury and William Burke. In the Lab, they collaborated with director Kedian Keohan on the play BLUSH, a sci-fi epic of trans becoming. With Kedian, they also created the piece DAD DANCE! which was presented by FEAST and The Playwriting Collective....
K Hurley (they/she) is a playwright and theater-maker living in Brooklyn. They were a 2019-2021 Soho Rep Writer Director Lab member, co-chaired by Jackie Sibblies Drury and William Burke. In the Lab, they collaborated with director Kedian Keohan on the play BLUSH, a sci-fi epic of trans becoming. With Kedian, they also created the piece DAD DANCE! which was presented by FEAST and The Playwriting Collective. Their short, deer play, was published by The Dionysian (Issue 003).

Plays

  • Festooning by K Hurley
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
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    Keyword: bees, trans + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: bees, trans, climate catastrophe, LGBTQ
    Two native drone bees hooking up and talking about hate. A couple of lesbians fighting about insurance in their brownstone during a hurricane. A honeybee with a PhD leads a lecture trying to get people to understand the impact of their diets. Oh, and animals are waging war on humans (but there's so much else going on it's hard to even think about that). Festooning is a play about the climate...
    Two native drone bees hooking up and talking about hate. A couple of lesbians fighting about insurance in their brownstone during a hurricane. A honeybee with a PhD leads a lecture trying to get people to understand the impact of their diets. Oh, and animals are waging war on humans (but there's so much else going on it's hard to even think about that). Festooning is a play about the climate catastrophe and why we keep choosing violence over and over again.
  • BLUSH by K Hurley
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: experimental
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    Keyword: road trip, black holes + 2 more
    Genre: experimental
    Keyword: road trip, black holes, adult friendship, trans identity
    Co-created with Kedian Keohan. Four friends get laid off and take a road trip to see the Black Hole. At the center they find the Event Horizon. Crawl inside and save me a dance. Internal transformations become external. Let’s reckon with one another or become unrecognizable.