Maddox Pennington (he/they)
Writer, Director, Producer
Maddox Pennington (he/they) is a nonbinary theater artist, director, and educator; a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. A co-producer of LA’s Joy Who Lived, a Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Theater and Comedy Festival, he has most recently performed in White Rabbit Red Rabbit at the Fountain Theater and in Native Voices Antíkoni by Beth Piatote. His plays have been developed in Native Voices Short Play Festivals and Playwrights Retreat, 2023 T/GNC Reading Festival, the Theater Viscera Podcast, NYC’s FRIGID Queerly Festival, the Moving Arts MADLab, and the inaugural Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival in Boulder, CO, and the upcoming Kayenta New Play Lab in Ivins, Utah. His award-winning work at the Hollywood Fringe Festival with majority nonbinary/trans casts has included Love Chicken, Annex, and A Third Space, which was part of the Trans Conversation Project in 2024. His next projects include an LACMA-Native Voices collaborative devised commission, participating in the LA Writer’s Workshop with Center Theater Group, and performing in Tara Moses’ HAUNTED. This summer he’ll be directing Dillon Chitto’s PIGEON as part of the Native Voices Playwrights New Work Retreat in Los Angeles and Madeline Sayet’s THE FISH at Sparkfest in Fort Worth, Texas. You can find them online @MKPinLA and MaddoxKPennington.com.
The Trans Conversation Project is a multi-faceted event series that includes intergenerational interviews, writing & performance workshops with the LA Get Down festival, and a newly devised theater project for the 2024 Hollywood Fringe. The Trans Conversation Project is supported by the West Hollywood Trans Arts Initiative and a Netflix Accelerator Grant. Follow along at @GayBonesProd on Instagram.
