Lindsay Kennedy is a playwright, dramaturg, and educator. Her play Her Own Devices won the Judith Barlow Prize and second-place for the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award and Darrell Ayers Award. Her work has been produced, developed, and commissioned across the US with companies like WP Theatre (NY), Theatre Alliance (DC), B Street Theatre (CA), Actors Theatre of Indiana (IN), Keegan Theatre (DC), KC Public Theatre (MO), CLIMB Theatre (MN), and Springville Center for the Arts (NY). Most recently, two new 10-minute plays were produced by Talking Horse Productions (MO) and she had a reading of her new full-length play Whisper Music with KC Public. Her dramatic works have been published in Theater in the Time of COVID, Their Own Devices: A Collection of Kansas City Playwrights, and Stage It, Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theatre. She cares passionately about advocating for new Midwestern voices as a new work director/dramaturg. She runs the Playwright’s Roundtable for KC Public and has adjudicated the Midwest Dramatists Center Conference and KCACTF Region 5 10-minute Plays. She is a proud member of the Dramatists’ Guild. MFA in Playwriting: Catholic University of America; PhD in English (Early Modern Drama): Saint Louis University.