Six Inches Above the Knee
Six Inches Above the Knee
Playwright
Sally Seitz is a screenwriter, playwright, and director originally from Nashville, Tennessee. Often, her scripts depict modern southern women and have been described as “if Flannery O’Connor was on a dating app.”
Sally’s play Six Inches Above the Knee is The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting. Seitz’s one-acts Graveyard Shift (2025), Please Do Not Touch the Art (2019), and Soldier of the Cross (2018) were selected as part of Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks’s FronteraFest’s Best of the Fest performances in Austin, TX.
Currently, Seitz is commissioned by 20th Television (formerly ABC Signature) to adapt Six Inches Above the Knee into a dark-comedy YA TV series as part of her first-place selection for the studio’s inaugural Emerging Playwrights Initiative. Seitz’s Rom Com screenplay, Too Many Fish in the Sea was the first-place winner of CMU’s 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Script Competition.
Starting this fall, Seitz will join University of Pittsburgh’s Film and Media Studies Program faculty as a professor of screenwriting. For seven years and counting, Sally has been a part of the Austin Film Festival team. Seitz holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama and is a proud member of WGA East and the Dramatist Guild of America.
Sally is so grateful to Michole and Andrew to be part of the Project Y family!
