Frances Mary McKittrick is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, and performer. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2024, where she studied acting, directing, and theatre for young audiences. In 2020 she was a YoungArts finalist in Playwriting for her play LAST DAYS, and received an Honorable Mention for her short fiction. Her short play, WAFFLEHOUSE, won first prize in the Princeton University Ten Minute Play Contest in 2020, and was published in the Interlochen Review alongside her short story HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION. While in high school her writing won first place in the Scribe Writing Contest and was published in the Brooklyn Public Library’s Teen Writing Journal as a finalist for the Ned Vizzini Teen Writing Prize. She has appeared on ABC’s SUBURGATORY, NBC’s AMERICAN AUTO and on Netflix in THE FOUR SEASONS. Currently, she is directing Charlie Kilgore’s LIVE FROM THE AFTERLIFE, which is being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in August, 2026. Her play BLOOD PACT will be workshopped as a part of Bedlam’s DoMoreNewPlays series at the end of June. She publishes creative nonfiction on her Substack, Bite The Hand.