STARR KIRKLAND
Starr Kirkland is a bi-coastal actor and spoken word artist. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and the British American Drama Academy.
Starr continues to stay busy working on plays, readings, dance shows, spoken word performances, and programs with youth in the community. Her passion for the advancement of youth with the use of creative arts continues through her work in many programs that foster a creative, open, intellectual environment for young people to express themselves.
She works with Realize Your Beauty promoting positive body image through theatre arts, and performs an original one-woman show promoting literacy at The Morgan Library and Museum as Belle da Costa Greene.
In a topsy-turvy world, you can often find her upside down: whether it be in a silk, walking on her hands, or generally being strange in a corner.
COMPANY MEMBER
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
CURRENT PROJECTS
National Theatre Conference 2026
January 17-19
The Billie and Classix Theatre Collective Presents
Rarely Seen Black Classic Plays
A staged read of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and Aishah Rahman’s The Lady and The Tramp
performed in dialogue with one another
directed by Dominique Rider
@ The Billie Holiday Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre: I Hope You Had the BRUNCH of Your Life
Bubble by Harron Atkins
directed by Cameron Knight
@ Ensemble Studio Theatre
RECENT WORK
CRITTERS
A New Play by Eric Lane
Directed by Eric Nightengale
Inspired by the paintings of Bob Barnett
Stage Manager - Olivia Martin *, Puppet Designer - Ian Sweetman
@ New Circle Theatre
National Theatre Conference 2025
2025 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
@ McCall, Idaho
2024 Breaking The Binary Festival:
Nissy Aya wrote this
directed by Dominique Rider
@ Playwrights Horizons
24 Hour Plays: Speak Up, Act Out with The New Victory Theater
@ The New Victory Theater
National New Play Network: National Showcase of New Plays 2024
Homeridae and other work
by AZ Espinoza
directed by Cat Ramirez
@ Queens Theatre
Transformation Theatre 2024 Virtual Reading Series:
Pot Odds
by Gabrielle Wagner Mann
directed by A. Lorraine Robinson
Tuesday, February 20 at 7pm EST
DGF: Fellows 2023 DGF Playwrighting Presentation of New Works
The Care and Keeping of Schizophrenia (and Other Demons)
by Gloria Oladipo
directed by Candis C. Jones
The Lucille Lortel Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre: Where Everybody Knows Your BRUNCH
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY
"Spooky Vibes" by Manic Pixie Dream C#%! Presents...
How to Bury a Body Before Brunch
by Mecca Medina
Hart Bar
by Jennifer Downes and John Peña Griswold
directed by John Peña Griswold
Hudson Guild Theatre
The Public Emerging Writers Group Presentation of:
by Nissy Aya
directed by Dominique Rider
Shiva Theater (The Public)
New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company present
(THE COTILLION)
a play with music
written & directed by Colette Robert
music & lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney
additional lyrics by Colette Robert
choreography by nicHi douglas
Mezzanine Theater at A.R.T./New York Theatres
Interstate 73 Play Reading
Step Mom, Step Mom, Step Mom.
by Jahna Ferron-Smith
directed by Matt Dickson
New Ambassadors Theatre Company’s FEARfest: HOT BLOOD SUNDAE by Aly Kantor
directed by Mia Anderson
New Light Theater Project presents INK'DWELL by Erin E. Adams
directed by Tabatha Gayle
59E59 Theaters
Ojai Playwrights Conference New Works Festival
Running While Black by Jahna Ferron-Smith
directed by Taylor Reynolds
Tight Five by Jennifer Downes and John Peña Griswold
directed by John Peña Griswold
Cherry Lane Theatre
The World Premiere of CRYING ON TELEVISION by R. Eric Thomas
directed by Reginald L. Douglas
Everyman Theatre
Antu Yacob and Project Y present ALL HANDS ON DECK
Featuring work by Julienne Hairston, Lisa Strum, Bleu Beckford-Burrell, and up-and-comer Mahalet Tegenu
directed by Celestine Rae and Dennis Allen II
South Coast Repertory THE 2022 PACIFIC PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL:
HOW TO ROLL A BLUNT by Naomi Lorrain
directed by Colette Robert
dramaturg, Francisca Da Silveira
Segerstrom Stage
Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood Monday Lunch Episode 15: Love and Grief or the Mary Christmas Play
by Phanésia Pharel
directed by Mikhaela Mahony
CONGRATULATIONS Team COTILLION! - The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in The Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel received 8 nominations at the 51st Annual Vivian Robinson AUDELCO Awards, and two awards: Mika Eubanks for Best Costume Design and nicHi douglas for Best Choreography.
photos: Still1 / Loreto Jamlig
