Katie Kirk

Katie Kirk is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Northwest Indiana who writes about class, gossip, and the "hedgehog's dilemma". Katie's plays have been produced or developed with organizations including Theater Masters, the University of Kentucky, Missouri State University, 46 Minutes Collective, Fresh Fruit Festival, and the American College Theater Festival.

Katie received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation screenwriting award and was a finalist for ABC Signature's Emerging Playwright Initiative. Plays include Under Review (workshopped at Sewanee Writers' Conference; semifinalist: O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Theater's Terrence McNally New Works Incubator), The Ninth Annual Hemlock Avenue Barbecue (Carnegie Mellon New Works), EGGMAN (Mary Marlin Fisher Playwriting Award), and ONE HUNDRED BEES (published with Concord Theatricals).

Katie's a board member of CMU's New York Drama Alumni Community (NYDAC) and teaches playwriting through the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Associations: The Playwrights' Center, Transport Group’s Emerging Theatre Makers, and the Dramatists Guild of America. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University.