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, Nicky...

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  Will Arbery

  Resident Playwright

  2019-present

  Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. Plano premiered at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks...

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  Kevin Artigue

  Resident Playwright

  2019-present

  Kevin Artigue writes plays, TV, and film. He was raised in Redlands, CA and calls Brooklyn home. He’s a current member of...

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  Clare Barron

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

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

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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; MONUMENT, OR FOUR SISTERS (A SLOTH PLAY); THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION; FRUITING...

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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 is a Queer, Puerto Rican and Dominican playwright. He holds an MFA in Acting from The New School...

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  Kate Cortesi

  Resident Playwright

  2016-present

  Kate Cortesi is a Brooklyn and Boston based playwright from Washington, D.C. Her play which tackles the #metoo movement...

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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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  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. Her recent works include I’ll Get You Back Again (...

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  Gracie Gardner

  Resident Playwright

  2019-present

  Gracie Gardner is a New York based playwright. Her play Pussy Sludge was selected for the 2019 Theatertreffen...

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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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  Dipika Guha

  Resident Playwright

  2019-present

  Dipika Guha is an LA based, Calcutta - born playwright raised in Russia, India and the United Kingdom. Her plays include...

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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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  Mary Elizabeth Hamilton

  Resident Playwright

  2019-present

  Mary Elizabeth Hamilton was a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at The Juilliard School and a Jerome New York Fellow at The...

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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 television and theatre writer, actress, and director. She is of Bulgarian and Indian descent,...

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  MJ Kaufman

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

  MJ Kaufman is a playwright and television writer from Portland, OR. Their work has been seen at the Public Theater, WP...

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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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  Aya Ogawa

  Resident Playwright

  2017-present

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

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  Matthew Paul Olmos

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

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

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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, First Floor...

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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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  Vickie Ramirez

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a founding member of Chukalokoli Native Theater Ensemble, Amerinda Theater and a member of...

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  Lynn Rosen

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  Lynn writes tragedies disguised as comedies which reveal her affection for the strivers of the world.

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  Tammy Ryan

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Tammy Ryan's plays have been performed across the United States and internationally. She was awarded the Francesca Primus...

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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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  Madhuri Shekar

  Resident Playwright

  2019-present

  Madhuri Shekar was born in California and grew up in India. Her plays have been produced across the U.S. and...

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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 an award-winning playwright, reporter, and multimedia artist. He is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte...

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  Susan Soon He Stanton

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Susan Soon He Stanton’s plays include Both Your Houses (ACT/Crowded Fire) we, the invisibles (Actors...

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  Ariel Stess

  Resident Playwright

  2019-present

  Ariel Stess is an LA based playwright and director originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been produced and/...

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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 The Chinese Lady, Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American...

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  Karinne Keithley Syers

  Resident Playwright

  2015-present

  Karinne Keithley Syers is a writer and teacher based in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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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 New York-based playwright, lyricist, and librettist.  She is the author of the plays 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 Playwriting Fellow and a New Dramatists resident playwright. His latest...

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  A. Zell Williams

  Resident Playwright

  2014-present

  A. Zell Williams writes compelling stories about race, class, violence, crime, and politics that blur the line between...

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  Lauren Yee

  Resident Playwright

  2018-present

  Lauren Yee’s CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep, subsequent productions at...