Artistic achievements
2025-2026 LA Writer’s workshop / Center Theater Group
2025: LANPP Artist Grant Honoree with Fountain Theater
2025: “Generation Now” Play Commission
2025: Kayenta New Play Lab
2023 Native American Media Alliance Showrunner Program Attendee
Participated in monthly meetings with industry professionals and small cohort of Native writers.
2023 Native American Media Alliance TV Writer’s Lab Fellow
Participated in a rigorous TV writing workshop and industry events series with 11 other Native American writers; drafted an original pilot, Dead Set, about a divorced trans comedian trying to escape the specter of his late ex-husband.
2022 FLOYD COVINGTON FELLOWSHIP: Sources of Social Justic
This Fellowship supports the incorporation of primary sources from the USC Special Collections in direct instruction. Learn more.
2022 Moving Arts MADLab Fellow
In a collaborative ten month workshop, playwrights developed new LA stories for the First Look Reading Series.
2021 Bucharest Inside the Beltway Residency Fellow
Writers participated in a three month workshop, culminating in a virtual showcase.
praise for Annex‘s World Premiere Production
2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival
“Captivating! The story perfectly mixed serious topics like relationships and mental health with lighthearted comedy.”
“Maddox Pennington has a unique attention to nuance and an ability to devise situations and characters.”
“I loved that such deep, potentially painful subject matter was being treated with a playful sense of narrative absurdity, and that complicated topics were discussed openly and frankly.”
“This show delved deep into several heavy themes, completely unafraid to face the most vulnerable issues head-on. This unapologetic boldness pays off thoroughly in its connection with the audience.”
Awards
- Winner: No Room in the Green Room Award, MB Stage Productions
- Nominee: Best Drama, Producer’s Encore Award
podcast appearances
praise for love chicken
“90 minutes of pure joy”
“Genuine, relatable, and very engaging!”
“The writing was whip smart and had me constantly laughing.”
“Love Chicken is one of the queerest things I’ve seen at Fringe yet, and that’s high praise.”
Awards
- Winner: Producer’s Encore Award – Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022
- Nominee: Best Comedy – Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2022
- Winner: Theatre Theater Podcast Playwright Award
- Reading: Off-Off Broadway, Cave Theatre Co at New York City’s Queerly Festival
- Selected for inclusion in the Carlo Annoni LGBT Drama Library in 2021. Learn more.
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