Bio

Oscar K. is a playwright, performance poet, filmmaker, and journalist from Los Angeles. He is based in NYC and LA.

Oscar’s work has been produced in London, New York City, Fire Island, Boston, Cambridge, and Los Angeles, with The Divine, The Brick, HERE Arts Center, National Queer Theater, Boston Center for the Arts, Skylight Theatre, Celebration Theatre, and Harvard College.

He was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (2026, 2023), a semi-finalist for the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator (2026, 2025), and a semi-finalist for the Van Lier Van Lier New Voices Fellowship (2026). He was a 2021 Queer (Re)Public Resident Artist at The Theater Offensive and the recipient of the 2023 Phyllis Anderson Prize from the American Repertory Theater. He is a three-time Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting and Screenwriting, and a 2026 Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow in Performance.

Oscar has been commissioned by the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, The Huntington, and others. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Oscar holds a BA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Theater, Dance & Media from Harvard College. He is more fun on Instagram. @velveteen_fxggot

Upcoming

  • July 16, 2026: NARCISSUS AS PLOT FORM: A TRANSSEXUAL RAGE(R), a staged reading produced by Kitchen Sink Theatre Company at The Rat in Brooklyn, NY

Selected Awards

  • 2026 Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow in Performance, mentored by Carmelita Tropicana

  • 2026 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist

  • 2026 Van Lier Van Lier New Voices Fellowship semi-finalist

  • 2025 Celebration Theatre’s Trans Lineage: Rites of Passage Commission Recipient, world premiere in December 2025

  • 2025 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator semifinalist

  • 2023 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist

  • 2022 Phyllis Anderson Prize for Playwriting from the American Repertory Theater

  • 2018 Los Angeles County Youth Poet Laureate

Selected Fellowships & Workshops

  • 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow in Screenwriting

  • 2025 PEN America Emerging Voices Writing Workshop in Poetry

  • 2025 First Kiss Theatre Summer Residency Artist

  • 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting

  • 2021-23 Theater Offensive Queer (Re)Public Residency Artist

  • 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting

Selected Publications

  • Excerpt from NARCISSUS AS PLOT FORM: A TRANSSEXUAL RAGE(R) (The Brooklyn Rail, 2025)

  • EMERGE: Lambda Literary Fellows Anthology (Lambda Literary, 2022)

  • SING THE BIRDS HOME (Penmanship Books, 2019)

Oscar has studied under Mfoniso Udofia, Steven Canals, Roger Q. Mason, Jewelle Gomez, Sam Marks, Phillip Howze, Marcus Stern, and others.

Contact

email: oscar.k.nyc@gmail.com

IG: @velveteen_fxggot

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the London edition of NARCISSUS AS PLOT FORM: A TRANSSEXUAL RAGE(R) is published in The Brooklyn Rail Dec. / Jan. 2026 print issue! read at link in bio & an indie bookstore near u 🥀 thank you @billymcentee @cquitty 🖤 thank you Brooklyn Rep f
the myth returns 🥀 so excited to have a reading of NARCISSUS AS PLOT FORM: A TRANSSEXUAL RAGE(R) this July in Kitchen Sink Theatre Company’s 2026-27 season! this play literally just keeps getting wilder. get ready for more t4t4t messiness, m
what would you do, if you were god? 🥀 from london to brooklyn to manhattan ✨ NARCISSUS is a mind-meld of lipstick, pearls, running through the west village, no before no after just blur, flash / of light. new york city with everyone you want. intim
hi gays! it’s show week 2: even more kicking ur feet and giggling and shattering into pieces. get ur tickets! 🇰🇷 thank you Petey, Chris, Nico, and Sarah for supporting my unhinged mission. thank you Lee, Alex, Shawn, Olabisi, and Phi for you