Playwright

Hannah
Kenah

(she/her)

Hannah Kenah is a playwright, performer, and devised theatre artist. She participated in Rogue Machine’s 2025 Playwright’s Roundtable and recently joined Public Assembly as an Associated Artist. Hannah developed her play Grief World through The Echo Theater Company’s Playwrights Lab, with further development in IAMA Theatre Company’s 2024 New Works Festival. Hannah wrote and performed with the Rude Mechs for over a decade, including touring with The Method Gun, writing and performing in Field Guide which premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre, writing and performing in a national tour of Now Now Oh Now, and collaborating on their recreation of Dionysus in 69. For Salvage Vanguard Theater, she wrote Guest by Courtesy and toured with the piece to Brooklyn and Bulgaria. Her play With Great Difficulty Alice Sits was a Semifinalist for the 2018 Relentless Award, and Grief World was a 2024 Honorable Mention. Hannah has developed work with Sibyl Kempson & New Dramatists, Jennifer Kidwell, Mason Rosenthal, Fusebox Festival, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of British Columbia, Paper Chairs, and Harbor Stage Company, among others. She holds an M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas at Austin, a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and a certificate of physical theatre from Dell’Arte International.