Kennesaw State Theatre and Performance Studies

10/10/2026

Dramaturgy Team Content!
“Pass the Phone” with the cast of Branches Etched Across the Sky!

10/07/2026

Branches Etched Across the Sky is OPEN!
Thanks to Breathe Images for the beautiful production photos.

Come see the magic October 6-11 in The Onyx Theater.

10/06/2026

Happy Opening to Branches Etched Across the Sky!

10/03/2026

Opening Tuesday October 6!
One week only!

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How does art serve as a vehicle for processing trauma, and how can a process as messy as that be translated to the stage? Addae Moon, an Atlanta playwright and dramaturg, grapples with that question in his play Branches Etched Across the Sky, now in its second stage production at…

10/02/2026

From our student dramaturgy team!

09/30/2026

Hot off the press - material from our wonderful student Dramaturgy Team!

Alexander Whittenberg

09/28/2026

09/24/2026

Want to know MORE about our next production? Branches Etched Across the Sky opens October 6.

What if the place where we go to escape reality is also the place where we finally confront it? That question lives at the heart of Branches Etched Across the Sky, a magical, deeply theatrical work by playwright Addae Moon presented by the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Kennesaw St...

09/21/2026

Opening October 6th!
Branches Etched Across the Sky
By Addae Moon
Directed by Marlon Andrew Burnley
October 6 - 11
The Onyx Theater

Blending emotional intimacy with theatrical imagination, the play moves between reality and memory, tracing the ways families hold one another through uncertainty and change. As characters navigate grief, care and the unknowable spaces between them, imagination becomes not an escape from hardship, but a way of enduring it.

Please be advised: This performance contains mature content and may not be suitable for all audiences.

06/15/2026

Congrats to our amazing Alum Anterior Leverett!

In partnership with The Lillys, we are thrilled to announce graduate students Brittany K. Allen and Anterior Leverett as the 2026 recipients for the Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship.

The Fellowship was created under the leadership and vision of Julia Jordan and Lynn Nottage in honor of the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, as part of the Lillys’ mission of celebrating, funding, and fighting for women by promoting gender and racial parity in the American theater. This year’s recipients were selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actress Eboni Booth.

Congratulations, Brittany and Anterior! Read more about their work below ⬇️

Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. Her plays have been produced and developed by Manhattan Theatre Club, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, WPLab, Portland Center Stage, Jungle Theater, Studio Theatre, and KC Rep, among other places, and her radio plays and podcasts have been produced by Audible/Fresh Produce Media and Playing On Air. She currently holds commissions from Playwrights Horizons, The Civilians/NYSCA, and Portland Center Stage, and is an alumna of EST/Youngblood, the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. Her writing life has been supported by fellowships to Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Ucross, as well as scholarships to Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers Conference. She is a resident playwright with C**t Coeur.

Anterior Leverett is a playwright, performer, and scholar-artist based in New York. Hailing from Savannah, GA, she received her B.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Kennesaw State University and an M.A. in Africana Studies from Georgia State University. She is a Working Title Playwright Rosalind Ayers-Williams Scholarship Recipient for 2023-2025, a member of the 2023/2024 Alliance Theatre Lead Reiser Artist Lab, and a 2024 SheATL Finalist. Her play Yanni Stone & the Honeypot Trap was selected for the 2022/2023 Synchronicity Theatre Stripped Bare New Play Incubator Project, a Hush Harbor Lab Workshop Development, and a National Black Theatre Micro Development Lab. Anterior is a current member of the 2028 Columbia University Playwriting cohort.