Resident Playwrights

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  David Adjmi

  Resident Playwright

  2008-present

  David Adjmi was listed as one of the Top Ten in Culture for 2011 by The New Yorker magazine. His play 3C...

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  Joshua Allen

  Resident Playwright

  2011-present

  Joshua Allen, a native of Chicago, is the recipient of a New Voices/New York Fellowship from the Lark Play Development...

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  Christina Anderson

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Christina Anderson’s plays include Good Goods, Man in Love, Inked Baby, Blacktop Sky, Hollow Roots, and Drip...

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  Annie Baker

  Resident Playwright

  2010-present

  Annie Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her full-length plays include Circle Mirror Transformation (...

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  Tanya Barfield

  Resident Playwright

  2006-present

  Tanya Barfield’s plays include: Of Equal Measure (Center Theatre Group), Blue Door (Playwrights...

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  Daniel Beaty

  Resident Playwright

  2010-present

  Daniel Beaty is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and composer. Recently, his play, Through the Night, had...

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  Adam Bock

  Resident Playwright

  2006-present

  Adam Bock’s plays include Phaedra (Shotgun Players) A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk...

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  Andy Bragen

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Andy Bragen, a lifelong resident of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, was a 2009-2010 Workspace Resident with the Lower...

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  Sharon Bridgforth

  Resident Playwright

  2009-present

  Sharon Bridgforth, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009, is recipient of The Theater Offensive 2012 Out On...

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  Sheila Callaghan

  Resident Playwright

  2006-present

  Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory,...

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  Eugenie Chan

  Resident Playwright

  2007-present

  Eugenie Chan is a 5th generation San Franciscan whose forefathers sold slippers in Chinatown, dry goods in the desert,...

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  Mia Chung

  Resident Playwright

  2011-present

  Mia Chung is the author of You for Me for You, Exquisite Corpse, Page Not Found, an adaptation...

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  Clarence Coo

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Clarence Coo received the 2012 Yale Drama Series Prize for Emerging Playwrights, which was judged by John Guare, for ...

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  Erin Courtney

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Erin Courtney’s play, A Map of Virtue, produced by 13P and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, was awarded an Obie and...

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  Kristoffer Diaz

  Resident Playwright

  2011-present

  Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright and educator living and working in Brooklyn. Full-length titles include The Elaborate...

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  Kate Fodor

  Resident Playwright

  2008-present

  Kate Fodor’s newest play, RX, will be produced Off-Broadway as part of Primary Stages’ upcoming season, running...

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  Madeleine George

  Resident Playwright

  2010-present

  Madeleine George has been a member of New Dramatists since 2010. Her plays, including The Zero Hour, Precious Little...

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  Michael Golamco

  Resident Playwright

  2009-present

  Michael Golamco is an LA-based playwright and TV/Film writer. His play Year Zero received acclaimed runs at...

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  Kirsten Greenidge

  Resident Playwright

  2006-present

  Kirsten’s work shines a strong light on the intersection of race and class in America, and she enjoys the challenge of...

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  Jason Grote

  Resident Playwright

  2006-present

  Jason Grote is a playwright and television writer based in Los Angeles. His plays include 1001, Civilization...

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  Sarah Hammond

  Resident Playwright

  2007-present

  A resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2007, Sarah's plays are Green Girl, The Extinction of Felix...

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  Barbara Hammond

  Resident Playwright

  2011-present

  Barbara Hammond (New Dramatists' Class of 2018) received a 2012 Helen Merrill Playwright Award, is a 2010 Edward Albee...

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  Rob Handel

  Resident Playwright

  2008-present

  Rob Handel is a founding member of the playwrights’ collective 13P, which has won four Obie Awards, and heads the...

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  Lucas Hnath

  Resident Playwright

  2011-present

  Lucas Hnath’s plays include Red Speedo (Studio Theatre), A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About...

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  Sibyl Kempson

  Resident Playwright

  2010-present

  Sibyl Kempson lives and makes theater plays in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. Her plays have been presented at Dixon Place...

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  Carson Kreitzer

  Resident Playwright

  2006-present

  Carson Kreitzer's plays include The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, SELF DEFENSE or death of some...

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  Young Jean Lee

  Resident Playwright

  2006-present

  Young Jean Lee has been called “hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by the New...

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  Dan LeFranc

  Resident Playwright

  2008-present

  Dan LeFranc received the 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for Sixty Miles to Silver Lake...

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  Taylor Mac

  Resident Playwright

  2007-present

  Taylor Mac is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, and sometime director and producer. Time Out New York has...

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  Deb Margolin

  Resident Playwright

  2008-present

  Deb Margolin, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2008, is a playwright, actor and founding member of Split...

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  Laura Marks

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Laura Marks is a recent graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program and an alumna of the Public...

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  Richard Maxwell

  Resident Playwright

  2009-present

  Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York and the artistic director of New York City Players (...

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  Tarell Alvin McCraney

  Resident Playwright

  2008-present

  Tarell Alvin McCraney is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the...

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  James McManus

  Resident Playwright

  2010-present

  James McManus, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2010, grew up in a decaying steel mill town near Pittsburgh...

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  Chiori Miyagawa

  Resident Playwright

  2006-present

  Chiori Miyagawa is a NYC-based playwright and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Her plays vary in subject and...

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  Susan Mosakowski

  Resident Playwright

  2008-present

  Susan Mosakowski is a playwright, director, and Co-Artistic Director of Creation Production Company, an interdisciplinary...

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  Carlos Murillo

  Resident Playwright

  2007-present

  Carlos Murillo has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2007. His plays have been produced at Theater der...

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  Julie Marie Myatt

  Resident Playwright

  2007-present

  Julie Marie Myatt’s play, The Happy Ones, premiered at South Coast Rep, and won the LA Drama Critic Circle’s Ted...

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  Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

  Resident Playwright

  2010-present

  Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, 6’6”, is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include boom (TCG's most produced...

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  Qui Nguyen

  Resident Playwright

  2009-present

  Originally from Arkansas, Qui Nguyen is a writer, fight choreographer, and all around pop-culture nerd. When he’s not...

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  Sylvan Oswald

  Resident Playwright

  2009-present

  Sylvan Oswald is a transgender theater artist who creates plays, texts, and publications. His plays are often set in...

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  Kenneth Prestininzi

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Kenneth Prestininzi is Artistic Director of the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre and an associate artist with...

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  J.T. Rogers

  Resident Playwright

  2007-present

  J.T. Rogers’s most recent play Blood and Gifts was commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater. It debuted at London’...

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  Jenny Schwartz

  Resident Playwright

  2008-present

  Jenny Schwartz’s plays include God’s Ear, Somewhere Fun, and Cause For Alarm. Somewhere Fun...

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  Betty Shamieh

  Resident Playwright

  2010-present

  Betty Shamieh was selected as the winner of The Playwrights' Center’s 2012-2013 McKnight National Residency and...

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  Deborah Stein

  Resident Playwright

  2007-present

  Deborah Stein’s work has been produced and developed nationally at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Theatre @ Boston...

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  Andrea Thome

  Resident Playwright

  2009-present

  Andrea Thome's plays, theatrical translations and multimedia satires have been presented both nationally and abroad. Her...

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  Francine Volpe

  Resident Playwright

  2010-present

  Francine Volpe is a New York City-based playwright, screenwriter and dramaturg. Her play, The Given, was...

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  John Walch

  Resident Playwright

  2007-present

  John Walch's plays include In The Book Of, Tea-Totaled, The Dinosaur Within, Circumference...

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  David Wiener

  Resident Playwright

  2011-present

  David Wiener’s most recent play, Extraordinary Chambers, is the recipient of the 2010 ACT New Play Award, the...

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  Stefanie Zadravec

  Resident Playwright

  2011-present

  Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a 2012-2013 Playwright Fellow at The Lark. Her work has...