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Kairos Looney is a trans, queer theatremaker categorized as white. They are based on unceded Lipan Apache, Coahuiltecan, Comanche and Tonkawa lands. Kairos creates new theatre work steered by a deep commitment to collectively imagining a more just world. They can be found co-devising new work, writing impossible plays, and facilitating applied drama. They are especially drawn to projects that investigate the relationships between magic / complex trauma and irreverence / divinity.

Their plays and musical collaborations have been presented at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, HERE Arts Center, Magic Time at Judson, Dixon Place, Chinatown Soup, DCTV, The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, Theater for the New City, La MaMa Club Theater, 4th Street Theatre, Feinstein's/54 Below, The LGBT Center, Stella Adler Studio, and NYU's Cabaret Theatre, among others. Their one-person-show-meets-punk-rock-concert Salt Kid Watches Brooklyn Burn premiered at Joe’s Pub in the 2017 Downtown Urban Arts Festival. They are alumnus of the Pipeline Theatre 2021-2022 PlayLab, Southern Rep 2018-2019 New Play Development Cohort, Pipeline Theatre 2017-2018 PlayLab, and The Civilians 2016-2017 Field Research Team. They are a Ground Floor Theatre 2023-2024 GFTWrites! playwright in residence.

Kairos graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama studying with Jena Necrason and Liz Swados at the Stella Adler conservatory in NYC and International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam. They received their MA in Performance as Public Practice from UT Austin, which culminated in a thesis parsing carceral logic, applied theatre, restorative justice and autoethnography. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Performance as Public Practice, with a focus on the role of love in movements for liberation.

Kairos was a 2021 Graduate Summer Fellow at The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. They are a recipient of the 2020 Frederick J. Hunter Award for Theatre History and Criticism, 2019 James H. Parke Memorial Scholarship Award, 2015 New York University President's Service Award, and 2015 Bevya Rosten Memorial Award. They are a two-time recipient of the Stella Adler Space Grant Award for the purpose of developing new work. They have been honored to participate in artist residencies with RudeFusion@Crashbox, Judson Memorial Church, and The Barn Arts Collective.