Maddox K. Pennington

Maddox Pennington (he/they) is a performer, director, and playwright; a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University; his debut bibliomemoir, A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work was published by Hachette Books in 2017. Their work for the stage has been developed with LA’s Native Voices, The Moving Arts MADLab, and the 2024 Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival in Boulder, CO. Readings have been presented by NYC’s FRIGID Queerly Festival Off-Off Broadway, the Theatre Viscera Podcast, and the 2023 T/GNC Reading Festival. He’s performed as an actor in The Fountain Theater’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Nassim Soleimanpoor) and will appear this fall in Native Voices’ rolling World Premiere of Tara Moses’ Haunted as Ash. Their latest directing projects include Madeline Sayet’s The Fish at SparkFest in Fort Worth TX and Dillon Chitto’s Pigeon at the Native Voices upcoming New Plays Retreat. 

With his production company Gaybones, Pennington has written, directed and produced award-winning plays with majority nonbinary/trans casts. He recently co-produced The Joy Who Lived Festival with LaserVision productions, facilitating acting and writing workshops as well as directing a debut presentation of LOVE CHICKEN: The Musical, for which he wrote the book. You can find them online at MaddoxKPennington.com and @MKPinLA.