Wallace Kenndall – 2026 KSA
Playwright
Kenndall uses the written word to entertain audiences and create living, moving art pieces through storytelling. She was an inaugural winner of the Farmers’ Alley Theatre Lumen Playwriting Competition, a Broadcast Education Association winner for her feature-length screenplay, and has been honored with three regional ACTF Playwriting Awards, being awarded four more times at the national level in 2024 and ’25 for their full-length plays ‘To Cry Into Sand’ and ‘Reckless Black Dropouts’. She was an inaugural member of the Black Playwrights’ Gathering in Washington, D.C., a 2025 Torch Literary Arts Fellow, an LTA one-act playwriting award winner, was a top 30 playwright for the 50th Concord Off-Off Broadway Festival, and a member of Dramatic Question Theatre’s Classics in Color Cohort. Published by 1319 Press, currently, she serves as an inaugural fellow at Plowshares Theatre Company, is the founding AD of the cinema/performing arts incubator Late Fee Collective, and is working to increase arts exposure programming for marginalized identities in Detroit, MI.