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Featured Playwrights

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...
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...
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...

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