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, Shared Manifest Entertainment, the University of Kentucky, The PlayGround Experiment, the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre 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 ($15,000) and the Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award. They’ve been a finalist for ABC Signature’s Emerging Playwright Initiative, the Live Arts WATERWORKS Festival, 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. 

They’re a member of PlayPenn's 2024-2025 Playwrights 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).