Ken wrote for all three seasons of the Peabody-award-winning Dickinson, starring Hailee Steinfeld and created by Alena Smith, now streaming on Apple TV+. His episode “This is My Letter to the World,” co-written with R. Eric Thomas, directed by Rachael Holder, and guest starring Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman, was named one of the Best Episodes of Television in 2021 by IndieWire.
Ken’s pilot AB/MB was developed at Amazon with Zachary Quinto attached to produce and star.
His play Troll received its world premiere in 2016 from The Rushline Company. Fast Acting Gentlemen was workshopped in the IAMA Theatre Company’s Under 30 Playwrights Lab, and is currently being developed with director Michael Hurwitz and producer Hannah Getts. He has also been a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group and The Brooklyn Generator. Ken has held fellowships from/developed work with the Sundance Theater Institute, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and MacDowell. He is an alumnus of The 24 Plays: Nationals and has participated in The 24 Hour Plays: Los Angeles as well as their Viral Monologues, where he’s written short pieces for Denis O’Hare, Sophie Zucker, and Juliana Canfield.
Ken holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he received the award for Outstanding Undergraduate Writing for the Stage.
You can follow him on Instagram and what he still calls Twitter, where he was verified before Elon came along and ruined everything.