Kait Kerrigan

Librettist Playwright Lyricist
she/her/hers

KAIT KERRIGAN (Book) is an award-winning lyricist, bookwriter, and playwright. Broadway: The Great Gatsby (book)West End: The Great GatsbyThe Time Travellers Wife (add’l lyrics). Off-Broadway: The Mad OnesHenry and Mudge (book and lyrics with composer Bree Lowdermilk). Upcoming: The Heart at La Jolla Playhouse in fall 2025 (book and add'l lyrics). Regional: Plays - Father / DaughterImaginary Love; Musicals - lyrics for Earthrise (The Kennedy Center), Rosie Revere, Engineer, & Friends (touring), both with Gunderson and Lowdermilk. Other: books and lyrics for The Bad Years, an immersive house party (pop-ups in Bushwick and Clinton Hill). Albums: The Mad Ones, Our First Mistake, Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live. Digital: A Killer Party (screenplay with Rachel Axler, Nathan Tysen, and Jason Howland). Her plays and musicals have been developed by the Kennedy Center, Goodspeed, La Jolla, Aurora, Theatreworks/Silicon Valley, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Lark Play Development, Primary Stages, Weston Playhouse, and others. Awards: Kleban (libretto-writing), Larson (lyric-writing), Theatre Hall of Fame Most Promising Lyricist (nominated by Lynn Ahrens). Alumna of Dramatists Guild Fellow, Page 73's I-73 writer's group, Barnard College, BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop. 

Highlights

Broadway: The Great GatsbyWest End: The Great GatsbyThe Time Travellers WifeOff-Broadway: The Mad OnesHenry and Mudge