Kiefer Lloyd (he/him) writes underdog stories that explore queerness and masculinity.

Kiefer is an award-winning writer named one of 2024’s Screenwriters to Watch by the International Screenwriters Association. He is a playwriting fellow with Lambda Literary and an alumnus of the Tin House Fiction Workshop.

Kiefer is the first playwright to adapt The Laramie Project since its landmark 2000 premiere. His new adaptation will be directed by Shane Dempsey (National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse) and is set to open in 2025 in Amsterdam, NL, where Kiefer lives and works.

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Projects

Play · 12–23 Nov, Amsterdam →

Play · 12–23 Nov, Amsterdam →

27 years after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a new adaptation brings The Laramie Project to Amsterdam—as hauntingly relevant now as it was then

Feature · Read on the Black List →

Feature · Read on the Black List →

Artful, horrific, and numinous, Evensong is an astonishing achievement.

—The Black List

Half-hour · Read on the Black List →

Half-hour · Read on the Black List →

Winner, WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab

Winner, ISA Development Slate

Top 1%, Coverfly Red List

Half-hour · Read on the Black List →

Half-hour · Read on the Black List →

Finalist, Writers X Writers

Quarterfinalist, Script Pipeline TV Contest


Press

2025

THE LARAMIE PROJECT by the Orange Theatre Company in Amsterdam

Recensie The Laramie Project: Documentair theater dat haat confronteert en hoop biedt

Recensie The Laramie Project door Orange Theater Company – Theaterkrant

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The cost of hate and the power of storytelling to confront it: we hear from the cast and crew bringing The Laramie Project to Amsterdam this November…

The cost of hate and the power of storytelling to confront it: we hear from the cast and crew bringing The Laramie Project to Amsterdam this November…

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Kiefer Lloyd’s Adaptation of The Laramie Project Sets November Premiere; Shane Dempsey to direct

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2024

Kiefer Lloyd joins the ISA Development Slate with FEVER...

2023

2024 WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab Winners - WeScreenplay

2022

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Excerpt from The Incendiaries published in Lambda Literary’s Emerge anthology

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PRESS RELEASE: Meet The Lambda Fellows & Scholarship Recipients of the 2022 Writer's Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

2021

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“How to Get Your Driver’s License” published in Portland Review

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Contact

Publicity

Olivia Schuch · [email protected]

Legal

Alana Crow · [email protected]

Profile

IMDB · ISA · The Blacklist

@kiefer.lloyd