Meghan Kennedy is a first-year Michener Center fellow in playwriting at UT. She holds a B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of The Arts at NYU. Her play Keep was produced in Dublin and Galway, Ireland. Upon arriving back in the U.S., she began working and writing for television networks including Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. The Greenest Month was a semi-finalist for the 2007 Princess Grace award, a finalist for The 2009 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and received a staged reading at The National Comedy Theatre in New York City. Her newest piece, Foodstuff, was produced as part of The University Co-op Presents: The Cohen New Works Festival this spring at UT.

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a bright wind over a bent world

Are there obsessions that run so deep we cannot survive without them? Do they keep us alive? Or do they wind around us so tightly that there is nothing else left?

Lyle is obsessed with getting struck by lightning. All the men in his family line have been struck except for him. His father, Gene, has never let him forget it. After a final planned and failed attempt as a teenager, Lyle left the only town and only love he ever knew. Now, he is finally returning to the dysfunction he left behind. As more truths about the characters’ pasts are revealed, their desires become more present. And Lyle becomes more determined than ever. He will not let his legacy pass him by.