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Featured Playwrights

Nathan Alan Davis
Nathan Alan Davis's plays include The High Ground (upcoming at Arena Stage), Nat Turner in Jerusalem (New York Theater Workshop), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), and The Wind and the Breeze (Cygnet Theatre). He received a Windham-Campbell Prize in 2021. Other honors include a Whiting Award, a Steinberg Playwright Award, and the Stavis Playwright Award. Originally from Rockford, Illinois, he is a Lecturer Theater at Princeton University, and a graduate of the Juilliard School, Indiana University Bloomington, and the Uni...
Brittany K. Allen
2021 Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. She’s a proud member of Ensemble Studio’s Theatre’s Obie-winning Youngblood collective, an alumna of the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, and was a 2017 Van Lier New Voices fellow at The Lark. Her play Redwood (2017 & 2020 Kilroys List) received its world premiere at Portland Center Stage in 2019, and will appear in upcoming seasons at the Jungle Theater and Ensemble Studio Theatre. She's developed work for/with Manhattan Theatre Club, ...
Vivian Barnes
Vivian Barnes is a playwright from Virginia. Her work has been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Steppenwolf Theatre. She has developed work with Clubbed Thumb, Montana Repertory Theatre, and the 2021 Ojai Playwrights Conference. Last Updated 5/10/2021
Nikki Brake-Sillá
2020-22 Apothetae and Lark Playwriting Fellowship Finalist Nikki Brake-Sillá is a playwright and filmmaker. She is the Founder of DrAW (Dramatists At War) and an inaugural member of Jouska Play Works. Nikki’s full length plays include Trouble of the World, Finalist (Space on Ryder - Family Residency), Semi-Finalist (O’Neill, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), Dear Ann, Residency (The Mitten Lab), Semi-Finalist (Premiere Stages), In Defense of Ourselves, Commission (Philadelphia Women’s Theater), and GTFOH. Her full-length narrative, A Weathering wa...
A.A. Brenner
2020-22 Apothetae and Lark Plawriting Fellowship Finalist A.A. Brenner (they / them) is a playwright, dramaturg, and New Yorker. Their writing blends naturalistic dialogue with heightened realism to explore queer, Jewish, and disability themes, challenging both societal power structures and theatrical form. A.A.'s plays have been produced or commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, National Disability Theatre, CO/LAB Theatre Group, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Fellows Consortium), Three Muses Theatre Company, Young Playwrights Inc., The Schwartz Cen...
Sam Chanse
2019-2020 Venturous Playwright Fellow Sam Chanse is the author of Trigger, The Opportunities of Extinction, Fruiting Bodies, The Other Instinct, What You Are Now, Lydia’s Funeral Video,and Asian American Jesus. Her work has been developed with The Lark, Ma-Yi Theater, Cherry Lane, Leviathan Lab, Ars Nova, and Ensemble Studio Theater/Sloan Project, and is published by Kaya Press (Lydia’s Funeral Video) and TCG (The Kilroys List). She is a resident playwright of New Dramatists, a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and a Lark Venturous Fellow. A f...
O Mae Davis
2020-22 Apothetae and Lark Playwriting Fellow 2017-19 Apothetae and Lark Playwriting Fellowship Finalist O Mae Davis (They/Them) has been a weaver of tales since they could speak their apparitions into existence. Their muse for storytelling comes from their Afrocentric ancestry. They pull inspiration for their stories from Santeria mythology. They’re compelled to conjure folklore so that they can cultivate black joy. Playwriting allows them to grab an audience and hold space for laughter, rejoicing, and revolutionary love. Their artistic missio...
Jahna Ferron-Smith
Jahna Ferron-Smith is currently a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Julliard School. She is also a member of the playwriting collectives, Youngblood and Interstate 73 Writers’ Group. Her plays have been performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival—including Running While Black, THE WOODS. (developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm), and SIR. (published by Samuel French). Last Updated: 3/8/2021
Dipika Guha
2019-2020 Venturous Playwright Fellow Dipika Guha was born in Calcutta and raised in South India, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Her plays include Yoga Play (South Coast Rep, Upcoming: Gateway Theatre Vancouver, Moxie Theatre & SF Playhouse), The Art of Gaman (Theatre 503 London, Relentless Award semifinalist), and Unreliable (Upcoming: Kansas City Rep). Recent works includes Azaan, a play for for Oregon Symphony Orchestra, contributions to You Across From Me (Humana, Actors Theatre of Louisville), Elizabeth for the McCarter Theatre’s Princ...
Dave Harris
2019-2020 Venturous Playwright Fellow Dave Harris is a poet and playwright from West Philly. His plays include White History (Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, finalist O'Neill, semi-finalist The Relentless Award), Exception to the Rule (finalist O'Neill), Tambo & Bones (Black Swan Lab at Oregon Shakespeare Fest, SPACE on Ryder Farm), Incendiary (NNPN/The Kennedy Center MFA Workshop), and Everybody Black. He is a member of The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, a Cave Canem Poetry Fellow, a Callaloo poetry fellow, and the 2018 winner of T...
Zora Howard
2020-2021 Van Lier New Voices Fellow Zora Howard is a Harlem-bred writer and performer. Plays include STEW (2021 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 2020 Drama League nominee for Outstanding Play; Page 73 Productions), AtGN, BUST, HANG TIME, and THE MASTER'S TOOLS (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Her work has been developed with SPACE at Ryder Farm, Pipeline PlayLab, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Cape Cod Theatre Project, among others. In 2020, her feature film Premature (2020 Film Independent John Cassavetes A...
kanishk pandey
kanishk pandey is a writer originally from Davis, CA. At 16, he won first place in the Princeton Ten Minute Play Contest. At 19, he was a finalist for the 2018 O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference for COLONY, his first full-length play. His thesis play GLENN received a staged reading at the Broke People Play Festival of 2019, as well as in the 2019 festival kanishk created, Adopt-A-Play.com. In the fall of 2019, he graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, with a BFA in Dramatic Writing, and minors in Creative Writing and English Literat...
Edison Ventura Mata Diaz
2020-2021 Van Lier New Voices Fellow Edison Ventura Mata Diaz is an Afro Latino writer/actor/finesser born in Providence, RI and raised in the Boogie Down. His work is an exploration of the hood, class, spirituality, and all things wavy. He's had his work developed with LAByrinth Theater Company, Curious Theater Company and the MCC Youth Company. He was a 2018 Space on Ryder Farm Greenhouse Resident. Recent acting credits include The Siblings Play (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). photo by Emma Diaz. last edited 8/13/2020.
Leah Nanako Winkler
2017-2019 Jerome New York Fellow 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...