Ritz-Cracker Mash: A Monologue, performed by the Author, Some1Speaking, Spring 2023

2nd Annual “Hear Me Out” American Monologue Project, Pinkplot Productions/Bishop Arts Theater, Finalist, Rhymes With Border. What I Wear Outside, Finalist

Recently Completed: What Else But Grace A memoir. Seeking agent.  

Full-length plays:  

Cape Haven Recently completed. Workshop/Reading phase.

Theresa at Home A co-production of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The VillageTheatre Project at both theaters, April/May 2007. Draft completed at The Village Theatre Company Retreat in 2005.  

More Than What A collection of 7 short plays, many of which have been produced separately.  CentaStage, Boston, MA, February/March 2007.   

Globus Hystericus A commission from Theater Emory, Atlanta, GA.  Staged reading April, 2007 and workshop production February of 2005, co-produced by Theater Emory and Out of Hand Theater, Atlanta, GA. O’Neill Finalist, 2004. 

My Heart & My Flesh Stage 3, Sonora, CA, April/May 2007.  Coyote Theatre/Bud Productions, Boston, MA, April/May 2005  (Elliot Norton Award Nominee for Best Small Production). O’Neill Finalist, 2001. 

The Last Work of Saint Peter the Great Provincetown Theatre Company Award, 1999. 

Lucy’s Attire Staged reading in October 2001, at Resonance Theatre in NYC.  It was given full productions by Creative Voices inNYC, and by CentaStage in Boston in 1995. 

One-act plays:   

The Mark of the Lord Summer, 2004 - a workshop reading, along with a residency, at Byrdcliffe Arts  

Colony in Woodstock, NY.  Included in the Brave New Works Festival in Atlanta, GA in February 2003;

Ms. Kenney was a Playwright in Residence for the Festival.  Sirens 3 Festival (Muse of Fire Theatre Company) at H.E.R.E. in NYC June, 2002 and CentaStage (Boston), staged reading. 

ExtraOrdinaire Pandora’s Box, Buffalo, NY, February 2004.  Perishable Theatre Company’s 2001

Women’s Playwriting Festival award. Produced by Boston’s Women on Top Festival (Underground Railway Theatre).  

The Devil on This Earth. Panelists’ Choice Award at the Edward Albee Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska, 1999.  Produced by The Vagabond Players in Los Angeles and given staged readings by Oshun Productions (North Hollywood) and at CentaStage, Boston. 

Ten Minute Plays:  

Warm Running Water, a ten-minute play. Boston Theater Marathon XXII, 2020

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Rosie’s Things Boston Theatre Marathon XII. 2010.

Things to Do on Saturday Boston Theatre Marathon XIV 2014. 

The Way You Laugh (part of the More Than What cycle) Love Creek Productions, NYC, 2008. 

The Woman You Deserve (part of the More Than What cycle) Boston Theatre Marathon X, 2008. 

Weight (An excerpt from Theresa at Home) Boston Theatre Marathon VIII, 2007 

The Space Beside Me (part of the More Than What cycle) SWAN Day Festival, 2010, Lowell Theater’s Plays on Tap, 2008.  Boston Theater Marathon VII, May, 2005. 

Ma in Her Kerchief Nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Short, Best Actress (winner) at New England  

Film Festival.  Filmed in NYC by ROAM Productions, 2011.  Gan-e-meed  

Theatre, 2010, Acme Winter Festival, 2005. Boston Theater Marathon V, 2004.  Hovey Players, 2004.Stormy Weather Players, New Windsor, NY, 2004. Dramatic Publishing Company, CT, as part of its 35 in 10 Anthology. 

More Than What Hovey Shorts 2003, Boston Theater Marathon IV, 2002.  Published by Samuel French/Baker’s Plays Boston Theatre Marathon IV collection.   

The Way a Tulip Fades  Pandora’s Box, Buffalo, NY, 2004. 

Debt Actors Refuge Theatre, Boston, March 2009.  Devanaughn Dragonfly Festival, in Boston, 2004.  Finalist for the Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon. Boston Slam, 2004.  Boston Theatre Marathon II, 2000, and published in that anthology (Baker’s Plays). It was included in the Play by Play in Birmingham, IN, and Theatre Babylon in Seattle.  

Down Herring Run Arts Festival, Middleboro, MA, 2004.  Actor’s Theatre, Santa Rosa, CA. 

Fort Pointe Theatre Festival (Boston, MA); in Seattle at Theatre Babylon and in the Coyote Theatre’s  Second Annual Ten-Minute Festival.  It was published by Baker’s Plays in the First Boston Marathon Anthology of Ten-Minute Plays. 

What Mother Knows Love Creek Productions, NYC, 2008.  Slam Boston, 2005.  

Short & NEAT Festival as part of New Haven’s International Theatre Week, 2002. Also produced at CentaStage, Boston, and at Gad’s Hill, NYC.

Screenplays:  

The Queen of Braintree Feature-length drama set in and around Boston and suburbs, 1935. (among others) 

Fiction:            “Gizelle” won the Boston Magazine short story contest and was published in 1995. 

Other:

               Studied Acting with Tim McDonough and Vincent Murphy at U/Mass/Boston, 1978-82. Company member at TheatreWorks (Msrs. McDonough and Murphy) 1979-83  Performed extensively in Boston and New York. 

               Permanent Member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. # 6791

 Ms. Kenney received an M.A. in Creative Writing, Playwriting, from Boston University in 1998.  She studied with Derek Walcott and Kate Snodgrass. Ms. Kenney graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Boston (1981) with a concentration in Acting.