Kallan Dana

Kallan Dana

Kallan Dana is a writer originally from Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University. Her plays include RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (2023 O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2023 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2024 Fault Line Theater Irons in the Fire Semifinalist), LOBSTER (2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist) Lying (2022 Princess Grace...
Kallan Dana is a writer originally from Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University. Her plays include RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR (2023 O’Neill NPC Finalist, 2023 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist, 2024 Fault Line Theater Irons in the Fire Semifinalist), LOBSTER (2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist) Lying (2022 Princess Grace Award Semifinalist), Love Story (2022 Bramble Theater Unfinished Works Festival Winner), The Great Hunger (The Tank), and Playdate (Dixon Place, funded by Jerome Foundation Grant). She is a member of the 2023-2024 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers’ Group, a New Georges affiliated artist, and a founding member/leader of the writer-director group TAG at The Tank. She also makes work with her companies Needy Lover and Trove.

Upcoming:

RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR. World Premiere Production with The Hearth and The Connelly Theater Upstairs, December 2024. Workshop Production with Bramble Theater in Chicago, February 2025.


LOBSTER. University Premiere Production, Northwestern University, March 2025.

Plays

  • RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR by Kallan Dana
    Recommendations: 10
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    A daughter and father embark on a shapeshifting road trip across the country, into the past, through the gelatinous terrain of their shared nightmares. Everything is great!
  • Lying by Kallan Dana
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, experimental
    Genre: comedy, experimental
    Something awful happened to Elizabeth when she was a teenager. She will tell you a story about it now.
  • LOBSTER by Kallan Dana
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Nora loves Patti Smith. Nora is Patti Smith. Nora is stoned out of her mind in the Chelsea Hotel, no, the Chelsea Hotel is her mind, actually, the Chelsea Hotel is an out-of-use portable classroom in the Pacific Northwest, but that portable is a breeding ground for young women (lobsters).
  • The Great Hunger by Kallan Dana
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    Emer will do anything to get out of Ireland.
  • Transgressions by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Willow's mother disappears again and again and again and again and again and again.
  • Basement by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    V and Tom are married. They live in a basement, surrounded by their shit.
  • Love Story! by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, romantic comedy, satire
    Y2K is coming, the world is ending for real, and Schmeg is totally unlucky in love.
  • Playdate by Kallan Dana
    Cast: 
    11–50
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fantasy, farce, horror, political, satire
    Something's off inside the Playboy Mansion.

    Recent: Commissioned Workshop Production at Dixon Place (September 2019)