Resident Playwrights
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...
Boni B. Alvarez
Resident Playwright
2017-present
Boni B. Alvarez is a Los Angeles-based playwright-actor. His plays include America Adjacent, Bloodletting, Fixed,...
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,...
Will Arbery
Resident Playwright
2019-present
Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. Plano premiered at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks...
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...
Clare Barron
Resident Playwright
2015-present
Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington.
Andy Bragen
Resident Playwright
2012-present
Andy Bragen’s honors include a Workspace Residency and a Process Space Residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural...
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...
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...
Carla Ching
Resident Playwright
2013-present
An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and...
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...
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...
Kate Cortesi
Resident Playwright
2016-present
KATE CORTESI is a Boston and Brooklyn-based playwright from Washington, D.C.
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)...
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...
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Resident Playwright
2015-present
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Gracie Gardner
Resident Playwright
2019-present
Gracie Gardner is a New York based playwright. Her play Pussy Sludge was selected for the 2019 Theatertreffen...
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...
Dipika Guha
Resident Playwright
2019-present
Dipika Guha is an LA based, Calcutta - born playwright raised in India and the United Kingdom. Her plays include Yoga...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Aya Ogawa
Resident Playwright
2017-present
Aya Ogawa is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and translator for the theater. She challenges...
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...
Jiehae Park
Resident Playwright
2017-present
Jiehae Park's plays include peerless (Yale Rep premiere, Cherry Lane MP, Marin Theatre Co, Barrington Stage,...
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...
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...
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...
Lynn Rosen
Resident Playwright
2014-present
Lynn writes serious-minded comedies that reveal her affection for the yearners of the world. Plays include: THE...
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...
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...
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...
Jen Silverman
Resident Playwright
2015-present
Jen’s theatre work includes: The Roommate (Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Rep,...
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...
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...
Ariel Stess
Resident Playwright
2019-present
Ariel Stess is a playwright and director originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her plays include Tranquil, KARA...
Andrea Stolowitz
Resident Playwright
2017-present
Andrea Stolowitz is the Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence and a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland,...
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...
Karinne Keithley Syers
Resident Playwright
2015-present
Karinne Keithley Syers is a writer and teacher based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Plays include A Tunnel Year (...
Cori Thomas
Resident Playwright
2015-present
Cori Thomas is a playwright and actress.
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,...
Mfoniso Udofia
Resident Playwright
2016-present
Mfoniso Udofia, a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator, attended Wellesley College and obtained...
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...
Brian Watkins
Resident Playwright
2016-present
Brian Watkins is a Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow and a New Dramatists resident playwright. His latest...
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...
Lauren Yee
Resident Playwright
2018-present
This past season, Lauren Yee premiered Cambodian Rock Band (music by Dengue Fever) at South Coast Rep and ...
Vichet Chum
Princess Grace Award Fellowship
2018-present
Vichet Chum is a writer, actor, director & theater maker, originally from Dallas, Texas and now living in New York...
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Who Can Apply?
• Playwrights living in New York City and the surrounding tri-state area;
• Playwrights outside the tri-state area who are able to demonstrate the ability to spend time in New York City, the desire to utilize New Dramatists’ services, and the readiness to participate in a dynamic artistic community
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• 2 Full-length plays; or
• Books to musicals
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