Kait Kerrigan

Kait Kerrigan is an American playwright and musical theater lyricist and book writer.

Biography

Kait Kerrigan is a playwright and a lyricist and composer of musicals. She is a 2003 graduate of Barnard College with a degree in English Literature. She is the 2009 winner of the Edward Kleban Award as the most promising musical book writer in America.

She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.

Kerrigan's most recent musical works have been collaborations with Brian Lowdermilk. Their collaborations include The Woman Upstairs, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (with Zach Altman) and Wrong Number. She is currently working with Lowdermilk on TheaterworksUSA's adaptation of Henry and Mudge, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Her plays include Imaginary Love, Her Old Possessions, Tender Wars in the Green-Gold Room and Transit.

Works

Henry and Mudge (with Brian Lowdermilk)
Her Old Possessions
Tender Wars in the Green-Gold Room
Transit
Imaginary Love
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (music and lyrics by Brian Lowdermilk; book and lyrics by Kait Kerrigan; additional book and concept by Zach Altman)
The Woman Upstairs (with Brian Lowdermilk)
Wrong Number (with Brian Lowdermilk)