Kyle Hatley is writer, director, and actor. FEATURE SCREENPLAYS: Children of Children, Lineage and Special. Short screenplays: Marbles, The Witchman Interviews, Lotus, Queen of Hearts. STAGE ADAPTATIONS: War of the Worlds, Frankenstein: A Ghost Story, The Death of Cupid, Master of the Universe, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Head, and Watering the Grave. AUDIO PLAYS: The Dead Girl, Surfacing, Pinocchio, The Children, and Lineage. FILM DIRECTING: In Her Wake (short), The Witchman Interviews, Marbles, Dreamheart (short). TV/FILM ACTING: S.W.A.T., The Rookie: Feds, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Prison Break, In An Instant, As The World Turns, Soul Sessions, The Thinning: New World Order, Skincare. Kyle served as associate artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre from 2008 to 2014. In 2015, he was the Resident Director. He is the artistic director of This Happy Breed and co-founder of Ghost Light Pictures. Kyle is a quarterfinalist for the 2021 Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest and The 2021 Southern California Screenplay Competition for his feature script Children of Children. His short script, Lotus, is a 2022 quarterfinalist for Fresh Voices. He received an Ogle Award for his original audio series, The Dead Girl in 2008. He is a 2011 Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Artist Fellow and lives in Los Angeles.