I write plays that challenge minds and tickle comfort zones from my small, overpriced apartment in Manhattan.
Current
Kevin Renn is in the process of developing the script for a holiday feature film titled White Elephant with former collaborator Max Neace.
Upcoming
OCTOBER 2021 – Workshop of The Complicated Collection: An Evening of Short Plays of Convoluted Connections with The Gooby Collective, Manhattan School of Music, and City Artist Corps in New York City.
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2021 – Workshop of Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
FEBRUARY, 2022 – Reading of Mulatto Boy, performed by Kevin Renn at the Music Theatre of Connecticut in Norwalk, Connecticut.
FEBRUARY, 2022 – Performance of BLACKS+PHATS at Festival Playhouse at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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01
BLACKS + PHATS
BY KEVIN RENN
(3f, 2m)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the Black Panther Party; Michael Jackson? BLACKS+PHATS is a satirical, vignette play about black cultural issues, body image, fetishism, and their representation in modern society.
Development
Festival Playhouse at Kalamazoo College, 2022 [Production]
02
Jungle Juice
BY KEVIN RENN
(3m, 2f)
On the eve of their college graduation, six friends gather together to celebrate with one final rager – but after the night takes a surprising turn, the group is forced to confront both their uncertain futures, and a troubling secret that looms between them.
Development
Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, 2021 [Workshop]
The Artist Co-op Development Series, 2019 [Workshop]
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 2017 [Reading]
03
Mulatto Boy
BY KEVIN RENN
(1m, 1 f/m/non-binary)
Noah Goodmore is running for student body president, and rumor in the teachers lounge; he might win. High school has its challenges, but for Noah, the school's only student of color, paying for a private education is the least of his problems.
Development
Musical Theatre of Connecticut, 2022 [Reading]
OOTB/Weathervane, 2021 [Workshop]
The Classical Theatre of Harlem, 2019 [Reading]
04
Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical
BOOK & LYRICS BY KEVIN RENN
MUSIC & LYRICS BY ERIN J. REIFLER
(8 performers,
f/m/non-binary)
A group of BFA musical theatre college students come together the night before their college showcase, hoping to get through a smooth final rehearsal. To their surprise, their last run through is anything but smooth.
Development
Emerson College, Oct/Nov 2021 [Workshop]
Manhattan School of Music, Spring 2022 [Workshop]
SHORTS (SELECTED) ––––––––––
05
The Best Worst Holiday Window at Burgdof Goofmans
06
Into
07
Quarantine Kills
08
Brick and Bottoms’s Letter to the President
09
Not For Trade or The Bootleg Play
Residency & Honors
The Sable Project
Summer Artist Residency, 2021
SPACE on Ryder Farm
Greenhouse Residency (Finalist), 2020
About
Kevin Renn currently resides with two roommates, a bamboo plant, a vinyl copy of Whoopi Goldberg: Live on Broadway, and the dream of one day affording a studio apartment.
