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

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. 

Feature screenplay The Thallium Murders was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and selected as a semifinalist for the Humanitas 2024 Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award. Katie was also one of nine finalists in ABC Signature’s 2024 Emerging Playwright Initiative. 

Their work has been produced, developed, and supported by organizations including Theater Masters, Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, Athena Project, the University of Kentucky, The PlayGround Experiment, and the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival, among others. Katie's a member of PlayPenn's 2024-2025 Playwrights Cohort, the Playwrights' Center, TG Emerging Theatre Makers, and the Dramatists Guild of America.

BA & MA, English — University of Kentucky

MFA, Dramatic Writing — Carnegie Mellon University