Kris Thompson

Playwright
she/her/hers

Kris Thompson joined the playwriting community in 2014 but admits to a life-long love affair with writing. She has enjoyed full length, one act, and monologue production by theatres and groups such as Theatre Suburbia, McKinney Repertory Theatre, Theatre of Owensboro, Cone Man Running, Vox Feminina, Scriptwriters/Houston, Not Toronto Players, Boiling Point Players, The Beacon Theatre, Baytown Little Theatre, City Theatre, Gillette Community Theatre, M.T. Pockets Theatre, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Little Wonder Radio Plays, Zodiac Playhouse, Brave New World Repertory Theatre, and University of Central Missouri. Kris is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the National New Play Network. http://kristhompsonplaywright.com/

Highlights

HONORS / AWARDS

Smattering X: Best Script Winner,  Cone Man Running Productions, 2018

Smattering X: Best Use of Required Line Winner, Cone Man Running Productions , 2018

National Scriptwriting Contest Winner, Theatre Suburbia, 2017

Smattering X: Best Use of Genre Winner, Cone Man Running Productions, 2017

National Scriptwriting Contest Winner, Theatre Suburbia, 2014

PRODUCED PLAYS – FULL LENGTH

The Man in the Locket - McKinney Repertory Theatre, 2019

Bad Medicine - Gillette Community Theatre, 2018

The Man in the Locket - Theatre Suburbia, 2017

Bad Medicine - McKinney Repertory Theatre, 2016

Bad Medicine - Theatre Suburbia, 2014

PRODUCED PLAYS – SHORT / ONE ACTS

Fucking Bruce Banner - Iowa State University Theatre, 2021

After the Day I've Had, Death Would be a Blessing - Iowa State University Theatre, 2021 

Yea, My Parents Dance Naked In The Moonlight, What Of It? - Cone Man Running Productions, 2020

Carl and the Big Bad P - Historic Zodiac Playhouse, 2020

After the Day I've Had, Death Would be a Blessing - University of Central Missouri, 2020

After the Day I've Had, Death Would be a Blessing - Northfield Mount Hermon School, 2020

After the Day I've Had, Death Would be a Blessing - Company OnStage, 2019

Rocktavia the (Western) Musical - Cone Man Running Productions, 2019

After the Day I've Had, Death Would be a Blessing - M.T. Pockets Theatre, 2018

The Magnificent Olympic Games - The Beacon Theatre, 2017

Fucking Bruce Banner - Cone Man Running Productions, 2018

After the Day I've Had, Death Would be a Blessing - M.T. Pockets Theatre, 2018

Trick or Treat, Seriously - Baytown Little Theatre, 2017

True Spit...The Western - The Beacon Theatre, 2017

The Adventures of a Gay Man: Birth of a Hero - City Theatre, 2017

Figment with a Capital F - Ruby Theatre, 2017

The Magnificent Olympic Games - The Beacon Theatre, 2017

Figment with a Capital F - Boiling Point Players, 2017

You Can Dance If You Want To - Playhouse 1960, 2016

Journey to the Center of the Psycho Sexual Beast - Cone Man Running Productions, 2016

Kitchen Conversations - Theatre of Owensboro, 2015

Kitchen Conversations - Pandora Theatre, 2014

PRODUCED RADIO PLAYS

Dahmer, Party of Five - Cone Man Running Productions, 2021

Two Men and a Hole - Cone Man Running Productions, 2021

Karma's a Bitch But So Are You - Cone Man Running Production, 2020

The Grand Experiment - Cone Man Running Production, 2020

Birth of a Hero - Little Wonder Radio Plays, 2019

Birth of a Hero - Little Wonder Radio Plays, 2018 (staged)

PRODUCED SKETCH COMEDY

This is the EndThe Not Toronto Players, 2016

STAGED READINGS

Figment with a Capital F - Play Club West, 2017

PRODUCED MONOLOGUES

Bath Time - Brave New World Repertory Theatre, 2020

I’m What? - Nelson Hall Theatre, 2020

Two Weeks - Magnolia ISD, 2019

The Talk - Magnolia ISD, 2019

Bath Time - The Brazen-Faced Varlets, 2018

A Need For Speed...Dating - Saint Andrew's School, 2018

I’m What? - Saint Andrew's School, 2018

Bath Time - Brazen-Faced Varlets, 2018

A Need for Speed...Dating - Saint Andrew's School, 2018

Bath Time - Pandora Theatre, 2016

Cologne, Refrigerator Magnets, And Self-Gratification - Scriptwriters Houston, 2015

Where Were You? - Scriptwriters Houston, 2015

I’m What? - Scriptwriters Houston, 2014