Alumni Playwrights
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 grew up in Seattle and currently lives in Brooklyn. He is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2009-2010 Hodder...

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...
Class of 2010

Michael John Garcés
Alumni Playwright
2003-2010
Michael John Garcés’ plays include, Los Illegals (Cornerstone Theater Company, Los Angeles, and Teatro Bravo,...

Stephen Adly Guirgis
Alumni Playwright
2003-2010
Stephen Adly Guirgis has been a LAByrinth Company Member since 1994. His plays have been produced on five continents and...

Daniel Alexander Jones
Alumni Playwright
2003-2010
Daniel Alexander Jones is a theatrical integrator. His live art fuses writing, performance, design and direction through...

Julia Jordan
Alumni Playwright
2003-2010
Julia Jordan is currently working on two musicals; Bernice Bobs Her Hair (book and lyrics, composed by Adam Gwon...

Ellen Maddow
Alumni Playwright
2003-2010
Ellen Maddow was born in Los Angeles to a screenwriter and a modern dancer. She attended Hollywood High and received a BA...

Gary Sunshine
Alumni Playwright
2003-2010
Gary Sunshine has been the recipient of a NYFA fellowship and a Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and was a...

Anne Washburn
Alumni Playwright
2003-2010
Anne Washburn is from the West and Northwest and as a result prefers her foliage and landscapes a little on the drastic...

Barbara Weichmann
Alumni Playwright
2003-2010
Barbara Wiechmann is a New York based writer and performer who grew up in a town without mailboxes. Her work has been...






