Katie Kirk is a playwright & screenwriter originally from Northwest Indiana, currently living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Full-length plays include The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue (Carnegie Mellon New Works), EGGMAN (Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award), and Centripetal Force (NormalAve NAPSeries semifinalist, 2023). Katie’s short plays have been adapted for the screen and published by Concord Theatricals/Samuel French.

Their work's been staged or developed with organizations including Theater Masters, Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, The Playwrights Realm Script Share program, the University of Kentucky, Kentucky Theatre Association, and The PlayGround Experiment. Katie's full-length feature screenplay The Thallium Murders is one of five finalists in the 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-CMU Script Competition for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology.

Member: Dramatists Guild, Playwrights' Center

BA & MA, English — University of Kentucky

MFA, Dramatic Writing — Carnegie Mellon University