Kyra McConnell

Kyra is a Ridgewood-based writer, actor, and filmmaker whose work explores themes of queerness and strangeness. Her debut short film Unturned was named a 2024 Film of the Year by NoBudge, and she co-wrote and starred in the short film Wunderkind, which will have its world premiere at the 2026 SoHo International Film Festival.

Her fiction has been featured in reading series including Strangers or Friends and Don’t Panic, Enjoy, and she keeps a monthly critical newsletter called Rabbit Rabbit. She holds a B.A. in English from Oberlin College and is originally from Massachusetts.

At Woodward, she will be working on her first feature-length screenplay, which is an adaptation of Austyn Wohlers’ 2025 novel, Hothouse Bloom.