Shannon T.L. Kearns
Type of Work Seeking:
Development Opportunities (Including Open Writing Assignments)
Staff in a Room (Staff Writer or Story Editor)
Personal Highlights:
Developed a television movie script
Humanitas New Voices Fellow
Recipient of the Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowship
Two time Lambda Literary Fellow
Finnovation Fellow for 2019/2020
Winner of New Hope Film Festival for Best Streaming TV Script
Winner of ScreenCraft Pitch Competition
Representation:
Shannon is seeking representation
Learn More about Shannon:
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A former fundamentalist who became the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, Shannon is a playwright, author, and screenwriter who writes about trans men, chosen families, rural life, and the surprising connections between them.
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FREEDOM KANSAS - (Drama/Pilot)
After a personal crisis a trans priest gets sent to rural Kansas to save a dying congregation that doesn't want to be saved. It's a last ditch attempt for both of them and if he fails? It might be more than the congregation that dies.