Writing

SCREENWRITING

QUEEN BEA (short horror)

  • Semi-finals: 2021 Crazy 8’s Filmmaking Competition

THE STEPMOM (short drama)

  • Five-time award winner include two wins for Best Script

A MIDWINTER NIGHTMARE (short drama)                

  • Ten-time award winner including one win for Best Script       

LIVEFEED (short horror)

  • Finals: 2019 Blood n Guts Horror Film Competition
  • ‘Scariest Film’ & ‘Best Sound Design’ – 2019 Blood n Guts Horror Film Festival

LABOUR DAY (short horror)                                    

  • Semi-Finals: 2018 Blood n Guts Horror Film Competition

PLAYWRITING

TRAVELTHEATRICS (solo show)                                   

  • 2020 Western Edge Theatre Mainstage Run             
  • 2019 Suncor Stage One Festival of New Canadian Work
  • 2018 Winnipeg Fringe Festival                                                                                                                       
  • 2018 Vancouver Fringe

ALMOST A STEPMOM (solo show)                          

  • 2017 Vancouver Fringe (*sold out run*)                                                                                             
  • 2017 Winnipeg Fringe                                                                                                                       
  •  2017  Vancouver Celticfest (*sold out run*)                                                                                   
  • 2016  Calgary Fringe (*WINNER Jester’s Cap Emerging Artist Award*)                                         
  • 2016 Shift One Act Play Festival                                                                                                           
  • 2015 Victoria Fringe Festival  

THE GIRL ON THE MOON (ten minute play)         

  • 2017 Pull Festival

OTHER

As a freelance writer, Keara has been published in Introvert, Dear; SAD Mag; Understorey Magazine and Intermission Magazine. 

Keara was the head blogger/blogger coordinator for the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Association from 2013-2017. Through her position, she strived to promote theatre based conversations within in the Vancouver theatre community.

http://www.news.gvpta.ca/tag/keara-barnes/

In 2014 she was hired by ThreeWeeks Magazine to work as a festival reviewer for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She wrote and published reviews on a wide number of genres including drama, comedy, music and dance.

http://www.threeweeks.co.uk/kearabarnes/