Resident Playwrights

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  Johnna Adams

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  Johnna Adams is an Astoria, NY-based writer who recently received her fifth off-off production from Flux Theatre Ensemble...

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  Boni B. Alvarez

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  Boni B. Alvarez is a Los Angeles-based playwright-actor. His plays include America Adjacent, Bloodletting, Fixed,...

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  Christina Anderson

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Christina Anderson’s plays include How to Catch Creation, pen/man/ship, The Ashes Under Gait City, Man in Love,...

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  Clare Barron

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

  Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington.

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  Andy Bragen

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Andy Bragen’s honors include a Workspace Residency and a Process Space Residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural...

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  Kirk Wood Bromley

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  Kirk Wood Bromley, aka “Shakespeare on mushrooms” (LA Weekly), has been creating verse plays in NYC since 1990. In that...

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  Sam Chanse

  Resident Playwright

  2016-present

  Sam Chanse is the author of TRIGGER, THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION, FRUITING BODIES, THE OTHER INSTINCT, WHAT YOU ARE...

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  Carla Ching

  Resident Playwright

  2013-present

  An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and...

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  J. Julian Christopher

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  J. Julian Christopher holds an MFA in Acting from The New School for Drama. Acting credits include: TBA (by...

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  Clarence Coo

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Clarence Coo is a recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award and the 2012 Yale Drama Series Prize. His plays include Beautiful...

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  Kate Cortesi

  Resident Playwright

  2016-present

  KATE CORTESI is a Boston and Brooklyn-based playwright from Washington, D.C.

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  Kara Lee Corthron

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

  Kara Lee Corthron’s plays include Welcome to Fear City (Kilroys’ List 2016, CATF 2017, Kansas City Rep 2018)...

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  Erin Courtney

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Erin Courtney's play I Will Be Gone premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors...

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  Mashuq Mushtaq Deen

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

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  aesthetic Rumi has a poem that goes: "The way of love is not a subtle argument. The...

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  Jessica Dickey

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

  J E S S I C A D I C K E Y is an award-winning American playwright and actor most recently known for her play The...

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  Olivia Dufault

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  Olivia Dufault’s plays include “Year of the Rooster” (New York Time's Critics' Pick), “The Tomb of King Tot” (New York...

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  Matthew Freeman

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  Matthew Freeman is a Brooklyn-based writer and director. His plays have been seen on stages throughout New York City by...

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  Sarah Gancher

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Sarah Gancher loves big ideas, epic stories, and deep comedy. This season, she premiered I’ll Get You Back Again...

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  Morgan Gould

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  Morgan Gould is a writer/ director who is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists and current Lila Acheson Wallace...

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  Jennifer Haley

  Resident Playwright

  2013-present

  Jennifer Haley is a playwright whose work delves into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human...

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  Samuel D. Hunter

  Resident Playwright

  2013-present

  Samuel D. Hunter’s plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media...

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  Chisa Hutchinson

  Resident Playwright

  2013-present

  Chisa Hutchinson (B.A. Vassar College; M.F.A NYU - Tisch School of the Arts) is a New York-based playwright and...

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  Aditi Brennan Kapil

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  Aditi Brennan Kapil is a writer, actress, and director, of Bulgarian and Indian descent. She was raised in Sweden, and...

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  MJ Kaufman

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  MJ Kaufman is a playwright and devised theater artist working in New York and Philadelphia. Their work has been seen at...

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  Kristen Kosmas

  Resident Playwright

  2013-present

  Kristen Kosmas is a writer and performer. She has had new works commissioned by On the Boards (Seattle), The Chocolate...

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  Basil Kreimendahl

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  Basil Kreimendahl’s play Sidewinders won the Rella Lossy Playwright’s Award and had its world premiere at The...

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  Mike Lew

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Mike Lew is thrilled to join New Dramatists as a resident playwright, having previously served as their admin associate....

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  Mona Mansour

  Resident Playwright

  2013-present

  Mona’s play WE SWIM, WE TALK, WE GO TO WAR, directed by Evren Odcikin, will premiere at SF’s Golden Thread in winter 2018...

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  Laura Marks

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Laura Marks became the first recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award for an Emerging Playwright in...

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  Aya Ogawa

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  Aya Ogawa is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and translator for the theater. She challenges...

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  Matthew Paul Olmos

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  Matthew Paul Olmos iHe is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient (2014 Lab, 2013 UCROSS, 2009...

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  Jiehae Park

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  Jiehae Park's plays include peerless (Yale Rep premiere, Cherry Lane MP, Marin Theatre Co, Barrington Stage,...

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  christopher oscar peña

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  christopher oscar peña is a writer originally from California, now residing in Harlem and LA.

  His work has been...

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  Kenneth Prestininzi

  Resident Playwright

  2012-present

  Kenneth Prestininzi’s play IMPURE THOUGHTS (WITHOUT APOLOGY), inspired by the life story of Sor Juana, was read in June...

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  Vickie Ramirez

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a founding member of Chukalokoli, Amerinda Theater and a member of the Public Theater's...

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  Lynn Rosen

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  Lynn writes serious-minded comedies that reveal her affection for the yearners of the world and her interest in how...

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  Tammy Ryan

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Tammy Ryan is a playwright and librettist whose work has been performed across the United States and internationally. She...

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  Mark Schultz

  Resident Playwright

  2013-present

  Mark Schultz is a playwright and Episcopal priest. A resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of Rising...

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  Jen Silverman

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

  Jen’s theatre work includes: The Roommate (Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Rep,...

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  Aurin Squire

  Resident Playwright

  2016-present

  Aurin Squire is a playwright, reporter, and multimedia artist. He is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize...

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  Susan Soon He Stanton

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Susan Soon He Stanton’s plays include we, the invisibles (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival) ...

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  Andrea Stolowitz

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  Andrea Stolowitz is the Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence and a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland,...

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  Lloyd Suh

  Resident Playwright

  2016-present

  Lloyd Suh is the author of Charles Francis Chan Jr's Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American Hwangap, The Wong Kids...

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  Karinne Keithley Syers

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

  Karinne Keithley Syers is a writer and teacher based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Plays include A Tunnel Year (...

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  Cori Thomas

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

  Cori Thomas is a playwright and actress.

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  Melisa Tien

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

  Melisa Tien is a playwright, lyricist, and librettist.  She is the author of the plays Sweet Teeth, The Boyd Show,...

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  Mfoniso Udofia

  Resident Playwright

  2016-present

  Mfoniso Udofia, a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator, attended Wellesley College and obtained...

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  Ken Urban

  Resident Playwright

  2016-present

  Ken Urban’s plays include A Guide for the Homesick, The Remains, Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future...

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  Brian Watkins

  Resident Playwright

  2016-present

  Brian Watkins is a Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program Fellow and a New Dramatists resident...

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  A. Zell Williams

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  Born and raised in California’s Central Valley, A. Zell Williams writes to get people talking about the way they live...

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  Lauren Yee

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  This past season, Lauren Yee premiered Cambodian Rock Band (music by Dengue Fever) at South Coast Rep and ...