Playwright & Theatre Artist

Kearnan is pronounced Kernan, like kernel or colonel.

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

She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Her plays have been produced at Boston College, Newton Theater Company, KCACTF, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and Great Barrington Public Theater. 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 Clauder Competition Winner. 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 opened the 2025 summer season at Great Barrington Public Theater. Her Clauder Competition winning play Like Flies will have a world premiere at Portland Stage in 2026.