KEANE

MAX

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artist statement

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I’m a playwright operating 🔪🫀 on the monstrous to reclaim it – the queer, the inhuman, the grotesque, the things we repress and sweep under the rug, the time bombs activated and hidden in the walls.

My plays live in a Gothic-science fiction hybrid genre (“skull-fi”). They inflate, mangle, and re-stitch language to build new realities, infuse witnesses into alternate social structures, and leave them with tools to understand their own in a newly unfamiliar light.

They’re brutally silly prisms, refracting our world’s systems of power into wiggly wormy shadows on the wall, seating horror and comedy right next to one another.

bio

Max Keane is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Selected writing includes Wondergeist (Brick Aux), Keynote at Necro-Con (The Brick Theater), The Emancipation of Sugar and Baby (Weasel Fest ’23/The Brick), Break Room (The Wild Project), Number Six Down (Manhattan Rep), Psychodrama (Muhlenberg College). His work has also been supported and developed by the Workshop Theater and Shakespeare on the Sound. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College.

IG: @captainmacks

Email: mkeane88@gmail.com

photo by Joe Tupas

work

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Keynote at Necro-Con

The Emancipation of Sugar & Baby, or, Without Daddy, We Die

Psychodrama

Number Six Down