Playwright & Theatre Artist

Kearnan is pronounced Kernan, like kernel or colonel.

Maggie (she/her) is a Boston-based playwright and multi-hyphenate theater artist.

Her plays have been produced at Boston College, Newton Theater Company, KCACTF, and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. She is also a director, performer, educator, and scenic artist with a small TikTok following, sharing tips for painting theatrical sets for theater educators with limited resources. 

Maggie writes about characters clumsily trying to make the world a better place. Her plays have ghosts, murder, primal screams, Catholic guilt, and climate anxiety, but also nature, music, dance, laughter, friendship, and family.

She is the first runner-up for the Earth Matters on Stage Festival 2025-26, and a 2024 Clauder Competition Finalist. Her dark political satire How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos was produced in the Boston Playwrights' Theatre Fall Rep Festival in November 2024, and will open the 2025 summer season at Great Barrington Public Theater.