About

Oscar K. (he/him) is an internationally produced award-winning playwright, poet, filmmaker, and producer.

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PLAYS / Oscar’s play, SWAN, received the 2022 Phyllis Anderson Prize for Playwriting from the American Repertory Theater. SWAN premiered in the 2023 Moonbox Productions’ Boston New Works Festival. SWAN was developed in the 2021-23 Theater Offensive Emergent Artist Residency Cohort.

Oscar’s play, NARCISSUS AS PLOT FORM: A TRANSSEXUAL RAGE(R), was a semi-finalist for the 2025 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator. In 2025, an excerpt premiered in London in Scritches, presented by Brooklyn Rep at The Divine. NARCISSUS was featured in the T4T Fest at The Brick, produced by Noah Pyzik. A reading of NARCISSUS will be part of the First Kiss Theatre Summer Residency in fall 2025.

Oscar’s work will be featured in LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS: A Transmasc Cabaret at The Green Room 42 in NYC in July 2025.

MUSICALS / Oscar is the lyricist/librettist and executive producer of ISCARIOT: THE MUSICAL, which premiered at Harvard College in 2022. He is co-lyricist/librettist of THE FORTUNATES, which premiered virtually in the Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival in 2021. He is the lyricist/librettist of ARE YOU HAPPY?, which was presented in the 2022 Harvard Playwrights Festival.

PRODUCING & ARTS ADMINISTRATION / Oscar was the production assistant for Fagtasia, a Brooklyn-based drag collective. He has interned at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, M.A., Harvardwood, and Janet Yang Productions.

FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES / Oscar is a three-time Lambda Literary Fellow in Screenwriting (under Steven Canals) and Playwriting (under Mfoniso Udofia and Jewelle Gomez). He was selected for the 2025 PEN America Emerging Voices Workshop, VONA Voices Workshop, the Winter Tangerine Summer Workshop, the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute by East West Players, and the 2020 Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program in Poetry.

POETRY / Oscar was the 2018 Los Angeles County Youth Poet Laureate. His debut poetry collection, SING THE BIRDS HOME, is out now. As Youth Poet Laureate, he performed for an audience of over 900 at the 2019 Equity Summit, presented by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations. He has been commissioned to perform for the California Association of Human Relations Organizations (CAHRO), the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Los Angeles Public Library, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. He competed in the 2018 Get Lit Classic Slam.

FILM / A PRAYER FOR MY MOTHER, a short film that Oscar co-produced, won Best High School Film in the 2022 Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the American Pavilion at Cannes. He received the 2018 Emerging Artist Award from MY HERO International Film Festival. Oscar’s short film From AIDS to Advice: LGBTQ+ Seniors Tell Their Stories received 1st Place in High School Documentary, Playas de Tijuana received 1st place in High School Experimental, and Sincretismo received 3rd place in Student/Mentor. From AIDS to Advice was also recognized by the Heritage Film Festival. Sincretismo was one of 16 films selected out of 274 submissions for the 2019 WESTFLIX Film Festival, and received the Gaulke Award for Visual Storytelling. Sincretismo received 2nd Place in Documentary from the 2019 CineYouth Film Festival, Finalist for the 2019 New Optics Film Festival, and was selected for the 2019 Sierra Canyon Film Festival and the National Film Festival for Talented Youth.

COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE / In 2023, Oscar co-devised and performed a show about queer history on Fire Island in Rainbow Connection, a program co-produced by National Queer Theater and Arts Project of Cherry Grove. Oscar is part of QueerWise, an LGBTQ+ writers and performers group in Los Angeles. He has been in multiple productions, most notably Shades of Disclosure: Who Are You?, about the HIV/AIDS crisis, which opened the 2017-2018 season of the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.

EDUCATION / Oscar graduated from Harvard College in 2025. He received the 2025 David McCord Prize for creativity in the visual and performing arts, the 2023 Jane Coolidge and Walter Muir Whitehill Prize for excellence in the humane arts and letters, and was named a John Harvard Scholar. At Harvard, Oscar has served as technical producer, assistant director, and other roles on student productions with the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Harvard College Opera, and Harvard BlackC.A.S.T. He was a staff writer for The Harvard Crimson Arts section with a focus on queer and trans artists of color.