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K.D. Carlson’s plays have been featured at the Chicago Snapshots Festival and the Playwrights of the Western Region Showcase and produced in theaters across the U.S. She is also a stage actor and a proud member of Consensual Improv. Her play for young audiences, “Captain POW and the Climate Change Challenge,” is currently touring schools throughout Western Colorado.
Full Lengths
Beyond Reason
It’s 1886, and the father of American psychology, William James, has invited two mediums, to his home for a weekend of psychic investigation. Little does he know that the women he's assembled are on a mission of their own — to claim agency over their lives.
Physics for Poets
After a supernatural encounter with the dead poet William Blake,. graduate student Kay questions the value of completing her PhD. Before the clock runs out on the deadline for her dissertation, she must decide who she is — and who she wants to be.
Unmarried in America
When a court reporter who transcribes the Prop 8 Trial hears the impassioned testimony of the plaintiffs and witnesses in the case, she starts to reassess the laws and cultural norms that have kept so many people Unmarried in America.
Eudora's Box
Mom had a secret. Now, her family has a problem. When aging patriarch, Pop, shows the first symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer’s, his adult children swoop in to plan his future. As he hunts for the journals his wife left behind, his kids do their best to keep them buried.
Captain POW
A whacky game show pits Captain POW, champion of the environment, against Pollutron, a Co2 spewing consumer with no regard for the earth. This high-energy show inspires kids ages K-8 to get engaged in environmental stewardship.
Shorts
Interview 2.0
Set in a world where corporations are people and millions are scrambling to find work, the stakes of an online job interview become absurdly high. Designed for high-impact, online production via Zoom or a similar platform.
Woman of a Certain Age
Four women are trapped behind bars in a strange prison that is nowhere and everywhere. Bickering with one another and battling stereotypes, they strive to escape their confinement — using strategies they've internalized over the ages and eras. But none of these strategies work. Not until they remember the mighty, girl-warriors they used to be and start to make some real noise. Together.
Marginalized
A local bookstore patron discovers notes in the margins of a recently purchased stash of books. Are the notes written by a mysterious, secret soulmate, or has this voracious reader just been outed as a target for a covert anti-intellectual operation designed to rid the world of curious minds? In this dark comedy, grammar may be a life and death matter.
Sanctuary
An elderly German woman falls from a ladder while hanging a church banner. A Colombian man who has been sleeping in a back pew risks discovery and arrest to come to her aid. They have nothing in common. No shared history, or shared language. What they share, they discover, is the fragmented trauma of seeking refuge through immigration to the U.S.