Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Theatre Arts and Dance
Office: St. Benedict Hall 113A
Dr.聽Lindsay Kennedy聽is聽a Shakespeare/Early Modern Drama scholar, nationally produced playwright,听补苍诲听professional聽director/dramaturg.聽Her academic writing聽on聽the representation聽of virginity,听confession, and disability聽on聽the page and stage聽has been published in journals like聽Shakespeare Studies,听Sixteenth Century Journal,听补苍诲听Text and Presentation.聽She writes plays because she believes in theatre鈥檚 ability to聽make聽a group of strangers in a darkened room聽into聽a community and because she believes that plays can do more than just move an audience, they can move the world. Her聽full-length聽plays include聽Her Own Devices聽(KC Public Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Judith Barlow Prize, Jean聽Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award鈥�2nd聽Place, Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award鈥�2nd聽Place,),听搁补迟迟濒别谤听(Heller Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Indiana, Midwest Dramatists Center, O鈥橬eill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist),听补苍诲听River Like Sin聽(Catholic University of America, O鈥橬eill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, Kennedy Center Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award鈥擠istinguished Achievement, Br!NK聽New Play Festival Finalist).聽She cares passionately about supporting new voices in the Midwest as a聽teacher and dramaturg. She has directed and dramaturged in聽Kansas City and beyond at The聽Unicorn Theatre,听The Coterie Theatre, The Barn Players, KC Fringe,听St. Louis Shakespeare,听and others.聽She has been commissioned聽to write plays聽by CLIMB Theatre,听Springville Center for the Arts,听Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, and Westridge Middle School.聽Creative publications聽include聽Stage It, Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theatre,听Theater in the Time of COVID, 补苍诲听Their Own Devices: A Collection of Kansas City Playwrights.聽She is a proud member of the Shakespeare聽Association of America and the聽Dramatists鈥� Guild.聽In her free time, she also likes to build and play with puppets. MFA in聽Theatre (Playwriting): Catholic University of America; PhD in English (Early Modern Drama):聽Saint Louis University.聽
Education:
MFA 鈥� Playwriting, Catholic University of America
PHD 鈥� English (Early Modern Drama), Saint Louis University
Interests:
Playwriting, Script Analysis, Acting, Shakespeare, Theatre History, Puppetry, Directing