---
name: "Colin McKenna"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/colin-mckenna"
fi1m_id: "colin-mckenna"
imdb_id: "nm3069081"
tmdb_id: 3244351
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T14:25:36.117465+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Colin McKenna

## Identity

Colin McKenna

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/colin-mckenna
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** colin-mckenna
- **IMDb ID:** nm3069081
- **TMDB ID:** 3244351
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3069081/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3244351

Writer and producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Bekah Brunstetter](https://film.one/person/bekah-brunstetter.md), [Lila Neugebauer](https://film.one/person/lila-neugebauer.md), [Molly Smith Metzler](https://film.one/person/molly-smith-metzler.md), [Quyen Tran](https://film.one/person/quyen-tran.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3069081/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3244351

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Maid*](https://film.one/tv/maid.md) (79), [*Sirens*](https://film.one/tv/sirens.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Colin McKenna is an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. He holds degrees from Fordham University, Columbia University and NYU Tisch, where he earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing.

His plays have been developed at Cherry Lane, La MaMa ETC, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Dramatists Guild, where he was a Playwriting Fellow. He received the National Theatre Conference's Stavis Award for Outstanding Emerging Playwright for *The Secret Agenda of Trees*, which also won the John Golden Playwriting Award and the Goldberg Prize at NYU, and was a finalist for the Yale Drama Series.

McKenna wrote episodes of and produced the Netflix limited series *Maid* (2021), for which he shared a Writers Guild of America Award for Adapted Long Form. He wrote episodes of and served as executive producer on *Sirens* (2025), and received a WGA nomination for Limited Series.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sirens* (2025), Fi1m 75, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sirens.md)
- *Maid* (2021), Fi1m 79, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/maid.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sirens* (2025), series, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/sirens.md)
- *Maid* (2021), series, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/maid.md)
- *The Retrievals*, series, Executive Producer

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