Katie Kirk

Katie Kirk is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work features miscommunication, systemic erosion of the psyche, & the "hedgehog's dilemma". Also sometimes there are jokes, I promise

Katie's plays have been produced and developed with Theater Masters, Fresh Fruit Festival, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, the University of Kentucky, Missouri State University, the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival, and others. They've had work staged in multiple states and published by Concord Theatricals.

Katie's received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation screenwriting award and the Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award. They’ve been a finalist for opportunities including ABC Signature’s Emerging Playwright Initiative, the cell theatre's Residency Program, and the Kennedy Center’s Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award, & a semifinalist for the Humanitas Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Screenwriting Award, NormalAve’s NAPSeries, and Rattlestick Theater's Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, plus some other stuff.

Associations: PlayPenn's 2024-2025 Playwrights Cohort, the Playwrights' Center, Transport Group’s Emerging Theatre Makers, and the Dramatists Guild of America. Previous: Fresh Binder Productions. MA: University of Kentucky. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University. IUD: Kyleena.