Earl Crittenden Is a New York City-based screenwriter and playwright.  His full length dark comedy, The Kitchen, recently completed a limited Off Broadway run at the AMT Theatre in New York City to sold out houses. The Kitchen was previously a Finalist in the Kaplan Playwriting Competition at Eventide Theatre Company in Dennis, MA, and a Semi-Finalist at TNT POPS! in Texas.  

Earl adapted The Kitchen into a feature screenplay, which won Best Feature Script in The New York International Film Awards (July 2026). The Kitchen adaptation also garnered awards from The Berlin International Screenwriting Festival (Finalist); The Rhode Island International Film Festival (Semi-Finalist); and The San Francisco Int’l Screenwriting and Film Awards (Quarterfinalist). The Kitchen screenplay also received an Award of Excellence from The IndieFEST Film awards in California.

His short plays Rubbish and Pit Stop have been staged at Chelsea Repertory Company in New York, Thrown Stone Theatre in Connecticut, Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania, …….