Who Are the Playwrights

Barbara Weichmann

Alumni Playwright

Barbara Wiechmann is a New York based writer and performer who grew up in a town without mailboxes. Her work has been produced and workshopped at P.S. 122, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, BACA Downtown, HERE, the Ohio Theatre, the Samuel Beckett Theatre, and at the Edinburgh, New York, Philadelphia, and Seattle fringe festivals. Her play, Feeding the Moonfish, is included in an anthology of short plays published by Viking Penguin. She is a HARP Artist in residence at HERE Center for the Arts and a New Georges affiliated artist, and was a longstanding member of the Arden Party Theatre Company. A recipient of a NYSCA grant and a Jane Chambers Award finalist, she attended Hamilton College.