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Featured Playwrights

Rae Binstock
Rae Binstock was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She earned her BA from Columbia University, where she was mentored by Ellen McLaughlin and David Henry Hwang. Her full-length plays include land of no mercy (The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists 2017 Theatre Grant), Watch Me Burn (LezPlay – Pride Films & Plays, Idle Muse Theatre, The Fresh Fruit Festival), Expedition (Monster Piece Theatre Collective, National Theater for Student Artists, Seymour Brick Memorial Prize for Playwriting), We Are The Light Of The World ...
Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Erika Dickerson is a Blk feminist Pushcart Prize nominated poet-turned-playwright, educator and grassroots organizer from Chicago, Illinois. Using a jook-joint literary aesthetic, her work examines the intersections of race, gender, sex(uality), imperialism, and spirituality, offering a kaleidoscope of Blk womanhood. She is the author of the chapbook This Side of Mourning (New School Poetics, 2010). Selected stage plays include: Cult of Blk Bodies (Overture Center, directed by Christopher Walker) blk, somewhere else (Victory Gardens, directed by ...
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...
Nick Gandiello
Nick Gandiello is a playwright and teaching artist based in New York City. His plays include The Blameless (The Old Globe) Oceanside (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), The Wedge Horse (Fault Line Theatre), and Sunrise Highway (Ojai Playwrights Conference). Gandiello is the recipient of a 2018 Roe Green Award for Cicada, was the 2015 Page 73 Productions Playwriting Fellow, was awarded the 2016 Marin Theatre Company David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, and is an alum of the Ars Nova Play Group. His work has been developed or presented b...
Lucas Hnath
Lucas Hnath’s work includes A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hillary and Clinton; Red Speedo; The Christians; A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; Isaac’s Eye; and Death Tax. His plays have been produced nationally and internationally, including at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival of New Plays, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Royal Court Theatre, and on Broadway at the John Golden Theater. He...
C.A. Johnson
C. A. Johnson hails from Metairie Louisiana, but currently lives and writes in Queens. Her plays include Mother Tongue (Finalist 2016 Goldberg Play Prize), The Climb (2016 First Round Fellowship), Waitin' on the Moon, Elroy Learn His Name, and Thirst (2017 Kilroy’s List, 2017 PlayPenn Conference, Finalist 2017 Goldberg Play Prize). She is a member of the 2017 Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm and a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center. She was previously The Lark's 2016 Van Lier Playwriting Fellow, a 2016-2017 Dramatists Guild Fellow, and a m...
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
2017-19 Apothetae and Lark Playwriting Fellow Tim J. Lord is a 2017-18 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. A native of St. Louis who spent the last ten years in New York, his plays have remained very much rooted in the Midwest, exploring the relationships between communities and the physical landscapes they inhabit via our shared mythologies. His plays have been seen at the Public Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Lark, Working Theater, the New Harmony Project, the Summer Play Festival, NNPN/Kennedy Center Universit...
Donja R. Love
(photo credit: Brandon Nick) Donja R. Love is an Afro-Queer playwright, poet, and filmmaker from Philadelphia. He's the recipient of the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, the 2017 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellow, a Eugene O’ Neill 2017 National Playwrights Conference finalist, The Lark's 2016 Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellow, The Playwrights Realm’s 2016-2017 Writing Fellow, the 2016 Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Award recipient, and the 2011 Philadelphia Adult Grand Slam Poetry Champion. His work has been developed at Manhattan...
Christina Quintana
Christina Quintana is a New York-based writer with Cuban and Louisiana roots. Plays include: Citizen Scientist (EST/Sloan Project Commission), Azul (2017 Kilroys List; Honorable Mention Arch & Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition), Evensong (Astoria Performing Arts Center), Scissoring (Finalist Kitchen Dog New Works Festival; Finalist Alliance/Kendeda), Enter Your Sleep (Yale Cabaret; Baby Crow Productions), and Blank Canvas (“Best Short” Downtown Urban Theatre Festival). She is the recipient of fellowships from Playwrights Realm, Van Lier New...
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...
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,...
David Zheng
David Zheng is a first-generation Chinese American Actor, Playwright, and Photographer from The Boogie Down Bronx. His plays include KINGSBRIDGE and Ghetto Baptism, which has received workshops and public sharing at The Labyrinth Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theater Company, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Recent acting credit includes Exposure (Eugene O’ Neill National Playwrights Conference). He is the recipient of the 2017 Playwriting Observer Fellowship at the Labyrinth Theater Company, and the 2017 inaugural Greenhouse Residency at SPAC...