Biography
Yokanaan Kearns tends to write about personal identity in multiracial, multilingual, and multicultural communities. Many of his plays are inspired by the ancient world and its literature, including Pidg Latin, Dis/Troy, Choice, Maui vs. Hercules, Icarus Fights the Minotaur, Gilgamesh the Hero-y King, The Totally Believable Adventures of Hermes the God, and Triton Tries to Take Today. Dis/Troy was commissioned by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and developed at the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices program and at the Playwrights in Our Schools program supported by the Alliance for Theatre Education and the Children's Theatre Foundation of America. Yokanaan’s work has been performed by children’s theatres and schools both nationally and internationally.
