Keen Playwrights Lab History

Each year, the Keen Playwrights Lab brings together 3 mid-career playwrights to develop new full-length plays that uphold Keen's mission to provoke identification, reflection, and emotional connection.

2022 — Year 9

Explore the 2022 Readings

Kristoffer Diaz

Things With Friends

Sarah Schulman

Free Ali! Free Bob!

Anna Ziegler

Antigones

2021 — Year 8

Carlos Murillo

A Ghost in Del Rio

Vickie Ramirez

The Apple

Harrison David Rivers

Maybe the Saddest Thing

2020 — Year 7

Karen Hartman

New Golden Age

Lisa Ramirez

All Fall Down

Ken Urban

The Tenure Itch

2019 — Year 6

Deb Margolin

Just Give Me One Half Hour with My Mother

2018 — Year 5

Rinne Groff

The Rented Bridegroom

2017 — Year 4

Julia Jordan

Idiopathic Toewalker

Andrea Thome

Purgatorio

Stefanie Zadravec

Tiny Houses

2016 — Year 3

Courtney Baron

When It's You

Michele Lowe

It Goes Without Saying

Ken Weitzman

A License for Seal Boy

2015 — Year 2

Brooke Berman

Hurricane (or Clap If You Remember Tower Records)

Kenny Finkle

The 1993 Melancholy Experience

2014 — Year 1

Jessica Dickey

The Human Court