Hannah Kurczeski is an actress, singer, and playwright double majoring in Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies and English with a concentration in fiction writing at Yale University. Originally from the very small town of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, she is a hard worker and passionate advocate for arts education who believes in the power of community. Growing up, her teachers nicknamed her “Loud Mouth Shark” because of her constant hand-raising and natural projection. Today, she is just as loud and just as curious, and uses her lack of an inside voice to tell stories that foster human connection. 

 

Her first love has always been performing, which she has been doing ever since she was seven years old. Since then, she has continued to perform on both the stage and screen in roles ranging in age and type from the biting Joanne in Company to the precocious Logainne in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, to the four distinct personas of Woman 2 in Songs for a New World—and that was only in the last year! She consistently trains in all performance disciplines to hone her skills, and has landed several roles in both independent and major films, including the role of 'Young Marika' in the Emmy-Award winning documentary, Remember Us: The Hungarian Hidden Children (2020).  

 

When she was not onstage growing up, she was drafting fiction stories on the tattered pages of spiral notebooks. At Yale, she decided to combine these passions and try playwriting. Her first play, prom night, was selected for the 2024 Yale Playwrights Festival where it received a staged reading and developmental mentorship from Amy Boratko (Yale Rep) and Pulitzer finalist Sarah DeLappe (The Wolves, A24's Bodies Bodies Bodies). The following year, she produced a fully staged production at Yale.  

 

She’s inspired by nighttime walks, complex harmonies, cheesy nachos, suburban life, #girlhood, everyday magic, opossum memes, and other loud women (obviously). Most importantly, she’s inspired by the wonderful people she calls her friends.