Bio

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

Oscar’s work has been produced in London, NYC, Boston, and Los Angeles, including at The Divine, The Brick, Boston Center for the Arts, Skylight Theatre, and Harvard College. He has been commissioned to perform poetry for 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

Selected Awards

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

  • Commissioned to write one-act play for a world premiere in Celebration Theatre’s Trans Lineage: Rites of Passage program in 2025

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

  • 2025 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator semi-finalist

  • 2023 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist

  • 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 Cohort

  • 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting

  • 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting

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

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, Jewelle Gomez, Sam Marks, Phillip Howze, Marcus Stern, and others.

Contact

email: oscar.k.nyc@gmail.com

IG: @velveteen_fxggot

honored to be a 2026 Queer | Art | Mentorship Fellow in Performance, mentored by icon Carmelita Tropicana! new Florence project cooking…⚜️🏛️🍷💘
A griot, a nun, and a twink walk into a gay bar… Tickets are on sale now for TRANS LINEAGE: RITES OF PASSAGE! so excited for the world premiere of my play about a youth-obsessed Korean transsexual twink named Twink. honored to be alongside pl
‼️calling all gaysian transsexual twinks‼️ 🧴are u terrified of aging? are the ancestors disappointed in u? have u envisioned ur own death? do u love rice? do u hate twinks? 🍚 audition for my play 🇰🇷😛 Casting submissions are now open for TRAN
los angeles, man 🌵🦩
Los Angeles!! 🌴 so excited to be reading ~new~ gay content in my hometown with @penamerica in the Emerging Voices Workshop in Poetry cohort, taught by @fancifulnance free 🎟️ at link in bio. june 13 @4pm PST. see u thereee
tfw u continue the tradition of dropping a playwright note the day before opening night :D this is the only way i can describe it: NARCISSUS AS PLOT FORM: A TRANSSEXUAL RAGE(R). the anger & the alchemy. the rage // rager. the transsexual fantasi