Alumni Playwrights

 

Class of 2012

  • Marcus Gardley

    Alumni Playwright

    2005-2012

    Marcus Gardley is a poet-playwright who was awarded the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright. His most...

  • Quiara Alegría Hudes

    Alumni Playwright

    2005-2012

    Quiara Alegría Hudes received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful. Previously,...

  • Melanie Marnich

    Alumni Playwright

    2005-2012

    Melanie Marnich’s plays include Quake, Blur, Tallgrass Gothic, Calling All, ...

  • Daniel Reitz

    Alumni Playwright

    2005-2012

    Daniel Reitz is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York City, and has been a resident playwright at New...

  • Lucy Thurber

    Alumni Playwright

    2005-2012

    Lucy Thurber is the author of ten plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Scarcity, Killers and...

Class of 2011

  • Zakiyyah Alexander

    Alumni Playwright

    2004-2011

    Zakiyyah Alexander, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2004, is a writer and actor who attempts to reinvent...

  • Julia Cho

    Alumni Playwright

    2004-2011

    Julia Cho’s plays include, The Language Archive, The Piano Teacher, Durango, The...

  • Jorge Ignacio Cortinas

    Alumni Playwright

    2004-2011

    Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas’s many awards include, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York...

  • Rinne Groff

    Alumni Playwright

    2004-2011

    Rinne Groff’s plays and musicals, including Compulsion, Saved, The Ruby Sunrise, In the...

  • Jordan Harrison

    Alumni Playwright

    2004-2011

    Jordan Harrison’s play Maple and Vine recently ran Off-Broadway at New York’s Playwrights Horizons and at San...

  • Oni Faida Lampley

    Alumni Playwright

    2004-2011

    Oni Faida Lampley (1959-2008) became a resident playwright at New Dramatists in 2004, and was raised in Oklahoma...

  • Sarah Ruhl

    Alumni Playwright

    2004-2011

    Sarah Ruhl’s plays include, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Broadway 2009, 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist...

Previous Classes

  • Morgan Allen
  • Erin Detrick
  • Connie Hall
  • Todd London
  • Emily Morse
  • Ron Riley
  • Joel Ruark
  • John Steber
  • Cara Scarmack
  • Michael John Garcés
  • Stephen Adly Guirgis
  • Daniel Alexander Jones
  • Julia Jordan
  • Ellen Maddow
  • Gary Sunshine
  • Anne Washburn
  • Barbara Weichmann
  • Victor Lodato
  • James McKee Adams
  • Liz Duffy Adams
  • William Boen Adams
  • Louis C. Adelman
  • Milton Adelmann
  • Alfred Aiken
  • Keith Aldrich
  • Ronald Alexander
  • Luis Alfaro
  • James Allardice
  • Lynne Alvarez
  • Eric Anderson
  • Robert W. Anderson
  • Walt Anderson
  • William Andrews
  • Don Appell
  • Herbert Appleman
  • Mark Appleman
  • Theodore Apstein
  • Rella Abell Armstrong
  • Robert Armstrong Jr.
  • Jane Asham
  • Arnold Auerbach
  • Armand Aulicino
  • Robert A. Bachman
  • August Baker
  • James Baldwin
  • Joseph Baldwin
  • Miriam Balf
  • Jack Barefield
  • Anna-Marie Barlow
  • Robert Guy Barrows
  • Marilyn Barry
  • Jonathan Bates
  • George L. Baxt
  • Mark Bazzone
  • Lawrence Bearson
  • Neena Beber
  • Carl Beier
  • George Bellack
  • John Belluso
  • Barry Berg
  • Glen Berger
  • Brooke Berman
  • Charles Best
  • Alfred Bester
  • John Bettenbender
  • Nicholas Biel
  • Otis Bigelow
  • Elizabeth Blake
  • Lee Blessing
  • Bonnie Bluh
  • Flora Bonhuer
  • Philip Bosakowski
  • Jack Bostick
  • Julie Bovasso
  • Alan Bowne
  • Edward Thomas Breen
  • Deborah Baley Brevoort
  • Townsend Brewster
  • Conrad Bromberg
  • Edwin Bronner
  • Carlyle Brown
  • Kenneth Brown
  • Michael Henry Brown
  • Charlotte Buchwald
  • Ed Bullins
  • Russel J. Burton
  • Paul Burton-Mercur
  • Oana Hock Cajal
  • Joseph Caldwell
  • Lewis John Carlino
  • Bridget Carpenter
  • Elaine Carrington
  • Dean Carroll
  • Arthur Carter
  • Lonnie Carter
  • Robert Carter
  • Steve Carter
  • Michael Carton
  • William Cathcart
  • Lowell Chamberlain
  • Lenora Champagne
  • Paddy Chayefsky
  • Nellise Child
  • Alice Childress
  • David U. Clarke
  • William Kendall Clarke
  • Victor Clement
  • Darrah Cloud
  • Harold Cobin
  • Grant Code
  • Edward M. Cohen
  • Allyson Colby
  • Lonnie Coleman
  • Patricia Coleman
  • Val Coleman
  • Robert Colson
  • James Comorthoon
  • Constance Congdon
  • Mae Cooper
  • William Corington
  • Kia Corthron
  • Jo Coudert
  • Ron Cowen
  • Curt Cox
  • William H. Crain, Jr.
  • Migdalia Cruz
  • Nilo Cruz
  • Laura Cunningham
  • Lisa D'Amour
  • Paul D'Andrea
  • Gordon Dahlquist
  • Derby Dare
  • Mick Daugherty
  • Madeline Davidson
  • Michael Davidson
  • Eisa Davis
  • Russell Davis
  • Allen Davis III
  • Lillian Day
  • Edward de Roo
  • Edward De Roo
  • Henry de Wolfe
  • Elwyn Dearborn
  • Peter Dee
  • William Devane
  • Charles Dizenzo
  • Alfred Drake
  • Mary Drayton
  • Richard Dresser
  • Rosalyn Drexler