Kaitlyn Crockett (she/they) is queer femme artist residing in the historic Lowell, Massachusetts. An actor, director, producer, stage manager, designer, dramaturg, playwright, & more!
She is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Studio 506, an indie theater company of artists bringing relevant stories in resourceful and innovative ways to audiences by partnering with local organizations and small businesses. With Studio 506, she has been a: director, designer, choreographer, dramaturg, and producer of pop-up performances, staged readings, installation works, fundraising parties, dinner theater, and other theatrical productions.
From 2018-2019, they were the art curator at Mill No. 5 - including visual art at Coffee and Cotton and performance art at The Luna Theater. This includes bringing Brio Integrated Theatre's THE REAL ME in April 2019 to The Luna Theater and Boston-based performance art team Make Art and Cry to Coffee and Cotton.
full length plays
An Electric Sunrise on the Horizon
8 actors
It's 2050, the world's on fire, and we are Not Doing Well.
In a drowning, fascist america, Morgan creates a virtual program designed to help people grieve. What begins as a tool for personal healing spirals into a fight for collective survival. Set in a submerged Boston, a queer community explores the cost of agency, communal memory, and how we choose to love at the end of the world.
An initial one act "seed" of this play was produced by Capital Stage's Apprentice Company [2022], Marymount Manhattan College [2022], and as a radio play by University of Michigan-Flint [2021]
untitled pleasure play
5 actors
Three stories of people in process in a site-specific dissection of pleasure. A choreopoem as well as an honoring of + response to adrienne maree brown's 'Pleasure Activism.' [in progress]
short plays
Junkyard of Apples
2 actors
Under the heat of a brutal sun, Lincoln fights for their survival. A visceral excavation of the lasting effects of abusive relationships, the struggle of self-actualization, and the unrelenting inevitability of our own personal evolutions.
Excerpt published in Active Chapter’s Monologues Against Confession
How The Ocean Shimmers
3 actors + an ensemble
A pair of nonagenarians say their final goodbyes. A whimsical, freeing, and oh-so-very trans allegorical play about letting go of the past to step into the breathtaking magic of our true selves.
Published in The Lowell Eclipse, 'A Coming Out / Becoming Visible' Mars edition
Bats
2 actors
Two queer best friends become something more! :) We love to see it. A high-energy queer rom-com about being vulnerable enough to ask out your bff and longtime crush. Yes, the person you thought of, just now! That one! That one. <3
Open Mic
2 actors
A musician returns home to find that nothing is the same.
Produced by Studio 506 Theater, 'The Mosaic Project' [2015]