Katie Kirk

 Katie Kirk is a Brooklyn-based playwright & screenwriter originally from Northwest Indiana.

Katie's had plays produced and developed with Theater Masters, Fresh Fruit Festival, Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, Script Club NYC, Shared Manifest Entertainment, the University of Kentucky, The PlayGround Experiment, the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival, and others. Their work's been 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 and NormalAve’s NAPSeries, plus some other stuff. 

They’re a member of PlayPenn's 2024-2025 Playwrights Cohort, Fresh Binder Productions' Spring 2025 Cohort, the Playwrights' Center, Transport Group’s Emerging Theatre Makers, and the Dramatists Guild of America, & an alumni of the University of Kentucky (BA & MA, English) and Carnegie Mellon University (MFA, Dramatic Writing).