Hannah Honey Shepard

Playwright, Screenwriter, Narrative Designer

Hannah Honey Shepard (she/they) is a playwright, screenwriter, and RPG narrative designer from Washington State & Texas. She seeks other dimensions, parallel universes and sorcery - and cares little to write the world we live in. Their work rests at the intersection of trippy mindf*ck horror-fantasy and the rather similar (she argues) coping mechanisms of religion and addiction and how they affect sense of self. She won $10,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation with her screenplay Ode to Joplin in the Alfred P. Sloan Script Competition at Carnegie Mellon University (2025). Their play Mission Ready was workshopped with veterans and retired military at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom in the Spring of 2024. She has obtained her B. A. with Honors in Playwriting and Directing from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently seeking her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University, class of 2026.

Directing at Pop-Up Playfest 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University.

Take the Wheel’s 10-Minute Play Festival 2022 at the University of Texas at Austin.

In the Backseat by Kate Isabel Foley at Pop-Up Playfest 2025.

Wrote and directed Mission Ready at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom. 2024.