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Featured Playwrights

Nathan Alan Davis
Nathan Alan Davis is a playwright from Rockford, Illinois, now based in New York. He received a Whiting Award in Drama in 2018. His plays include Nat Turner in Jerusalem (NYTW; New York Magazine Critic's Pick), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (NNPN Rolling World Premiere; Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation, Los Angeles Times Critic's Choice), The Wind and the Breeze (Cygnet Theatre; Blue Ink Award, Lorraine Hansberry Award) and Origin Story(Premiering at Water Tower Theatre in 2019). Commissions and development include: The Public Theater, McCarter Th...
Olivia Dufault
2017-18 Lark Venturous Playwriting Fellow 2015-16 Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop Fellow, 2013-14 PoNY Fellow Olivia Dufault’s plays include Year of the Rooster (Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Times Critics' Pick), The Tomb of King Tot (Clubbed Thumb, New York Times Critics' Pick), The Messenger, and For Want of a Horse. Her plays have been performed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Youngblood, Clubbed Thumb, the Flea Theatre, and the Marin Theatre, amongst others. She is the recipient of the 2015 Playwrights of New York Fellowship, the 20...
César Enríquez
César Enríquez is an actor, playwright, director and professor. His personal style is considered the inspiration and spearhead of cabaret theater in México. Dissidence, political satire, and physical and musical comedy combine in a refined but popular aesthetic, re-elaborating the old tradition of the theater of carp that has made him deserve to be a three time Scholar of FONCA in the category of Scenic Creator. César graduated from the Foro Teatro Contemporáneo of Ludwik Margules. In more than 10 years he has created more than eight works, among...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His plays include Everybody (Signature Theatre; Pulitzer Prize-finalist), War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre; Pulitzer Prize-finalist), Appropriate (Signature Theatre; Obie Award), An Octoroon (Soho Rep; Obie Award) and Neighbors (The Public Theater). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his most recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics Circle Award for Most Promising ...
Sylvia Khoury
Sylvia Khoury is a New York-born writer of French and Lebanese descent. Her plays include Selling Kabul (2018 L.Arnold Weissberger Award and Jay Harris Commission from Williamstown Theater Festival, Citation of Excellence from Laurents/Hatcher Award, 2017 Kilroys List, Noor Theater Highlight Reading Series, La Jolla Playhouse DNA Reading Series), Against the Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theater premiere, Lark Playwrights' Week, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights' Conference, 2016 Kilroys List, Roundabout Theater Underground Reading Series, NNPN National Sho...
Arthur Kopit
Arthur Kopit is a playwright whose work includes Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (Drama Desk Award); Indians (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); Wings (Tony Nominee, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize); a new translation of Ibsen's Ghosts; the book for the musical Nine (Tony Award for Best Musical, 1982; Tony Award for Best Musical revival, 2003); End of the World With Symposium to Follow; the books for the musicals Phantom and High Society; Road to Nirvana; Chad Curtiss, Lost Again; BecauseHeCan; A Dram ...
Mike Lew
Mike Lew’s plays include Tiger Style! (Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, and Alliance productions; O’Neill, CTG, and Juilliard workshops), Teenage Dick (Public Studio; O’Neill, OSF, FST, and PF workshops), microcrisis (Ma-Yi, InterAct, and Next Act productions), Stockton (AracaWorks and EST workshops), People’s Park (Victory Gardens workshop), In Paris You will Find Many Baguettes… (Humana), Roanoke (Humana), and Moustache Guys. He is a Tony voter, Dramatists Guild Council member, and recipient of a Mellon Foundation residency, Lark residency, NYFA...
Tim J. Lord
Tim J. Lord is the recipient of the inaugural Apothetae and Lark Playwriting Fellowship for a writer with a disability and was a 2017-18 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. A native of St. Louis, his plays are still very much rooted in the Midwest, exploring the relationships between communities and the physical landscapes they inhabit often via our shared mythologies. His work has been seen at The Public Theater, The Lark, The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Harmony Project, The Playwrights’ Center, Pillsb...
Gabriela Román
Gabriela Román is a Mexican playwright, director, actress, and translator. Her texts have been presented and edited in México, Spain, and Argentina. Her work has been awarded prizes like the Independiente de Joven Dramaturgia por Escorzo, and have been finalists for the Premio Internacional ASSITEJ-España, for Cósmica, and by the Nacional Joven Dramaturgia Mancebo del Castillo, for Iridiscentes. Gabriela was twice named a scholar of the Jóvenes Creadores of FONCA. She has participated in artistic residences in Argentina and Canada. Her work Quetz...
Luis Santillán
Luis Santillán is obsessed with the Green Bay Packers and The Suicide Girls; he likes chocolate milkshakes and reading Milan Kundera. He has spent the working people’s taxes (Jóvenes Creadores / FONCA 2006-2007 and 2011/2012) in writing works such as Sarah Josepha, Un poco de paz, and Malintzin. He has also written Autopsia a un copo de nieve and Polvo de hadas. He lives in México City and wants to become a polar bear.
Susan Soon He Stanton
Susan Soon He Stanton is a playwright and screenwriter in New York, originally from the consonant-free town of Aiea, Hawai‘i. Her work has appeared at Clubbed Thumb, East West Players, Playwrights Horizons, Kennedy Center, The Flea, Honolulu Theater For Youth, Southern Rep, Joe’s Pub, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Perry Mansfield, and others. She is a two-time Sundance Institute's Theater Lab Resident Playwright, and member of Playwrights Center Core Writer Fellowship, the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, P73's Inter...
Camila Villegas Amtmann
Camila Villegas Amtmann is a Mexican playwright passionate about theater research. Her works include Jacinto y Nicolasa, Nos lleva el tren, La Ciénega de las Garzas y lo que queda de Cielo. For children: Las arañas cumplen años, Lluvia de Alegrías, Yaya quiere jugar futbol, and Barritar es de Elefantes. Ten years ago she founded, with other playwrights, Tepalcate Producciones, and they continue to write and produce theater independently. She also participates in interdisciplinary projects.
Leah Nanako Winkler
Leah Nanako Winkler is a Japanese American playwright from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her plays include Kentucky (2015 Kilroys List, World Premiere: Ensemble Studio Theatre in co-production with Page 73 and the Radio Drama Network. West Coast Premiere: East West Players), Two Mile Hollow (2017 Kilroys List, 2017-2018 Simultaneous World Premiere at Artists At Play in LA, Mixed Blood/Theater Mu in Minneapolis, First Floor Theater in Chicago and Ferocious Lotus in SF), Death For Sydney Black (terraNova Collective, Thinking Cap Theater,...
Lauren Yee
Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered in March 2018 at South Coast Rep and will open at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Victory Gardens in 2019. Her play The Great Leap premiered this past season at Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, and Atlantic Theatre with 2019 productions slated for the Guthrie, American Conservatory Theater, Arts Club, and InterAct Theatre. Also upcoming for 2018-19: King of the Yees at Baltimore Center Stage and San Francisco Playhouse, and The Song of Summer at Trinity Rep. Recent honor...