Kenyon Brown – PLAYWRIGHT


Kenyon Brown is an award-winning playwright whose productions include Notification, All A-Twitter, Ashes to Snatches, Dust to Bust (“Sex and Death XXX,” Festival, presented by the Bloomington Playwrights Project), and The Roof Needs Replacing (“Ballot Box Blizzard” Festival, also KENYON BROWN HEADSHOTpresented by the Bloomington Playwrights Project, and published by The Writers Guild At Bloomington). He has been widely produced, and had many staged and workshop readings, in theaters across the country as well as internationally. Other credits include In View Of (Winner, Rogue Valley Plays Festival, part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Pride Trash, (“Men At Work,” New Conservatory Theatre), It Only Happens Once a Year (Finalist, PlayGround, Berkeley Rep), London Bridge Was Falling Down (Finalist, Hyperion Playwriting Competition, Pacific Repertory Theatre), Living May Be Hazardous To Your Life (Finalist, Short+Sweet; Honorable Mention, FirstStage), Come Out to Play (Winner, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation), and The Exploits of Shiny Boy and Furst Man (Semi-Finalist,  PlayLabs Festival, The Playwrights Center; also selected for Workshop Reading, Contemporary Masters Playwriting Workshop, Playwrights Foundation).

 

His professional theater experience includes working at Circle Repertory Company in New York, The Players Club (Writers At The Players and Special Theatrical Fundraising Events), and the Playwrights Center of San Francisco. He was also a member of PlayGround at the Berkley Repertory Theater for four seasons. Many of his plays for young actors, including My Big Adele Moment; Hi, We Thought Were Dead; Annatude; The Zombie Effects, and Goodbye, Room, are published and licensed by YouthPLAYS. His plays also appear in the anthologies, Middle Schoolin’ It and Go Solo, also published and licensed by YouthPLAYS. He was awarded the Hopwood Award for Drama from the University of Michigan. He is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., The Playwrights’ Center, and The Writer’s Center of Indiana.