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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...
Erin Buckley
Erin Buckley's upbringing in dressing rooms and green rooms as the daughter of an actor-mother and her training as an actor at Yale have profoundly influenced her creative aesthetic and ethos as a writer. In her projects, roles for actresses are plentiful, and female stories are primary. Erin strongly believes in company, writes with specific actors’ voices in mind, and has collaborated repeatedly with a core company of actors (including Brooke Bloom, Candy Buckley, Aysan Celik, Emily Dorsch, Natalie Gold, Nancy Lemenager, Kurt Rhoads, Charlie Se...
Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Erika Dickerson-Despenza is a Blk feminist Pushcart Prize nominated poet-turned-playwright, educator and grassroots organizer from Chicago, Illinois. She’s a 2018-2019 Dramatists Guild Foundation Playwriting Fellow and The Lark’s 2018 Van Lier New Voices Fellow. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Obie-winning Youngblood collective, and a New Georges affiliated artist. Her work has been developed at The Public Theater, The Lark, New York Stage and Film and Jackalope Theater. Select stage plays include: a water tetralogy examining water ...
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...
Franky D. Gonzalez
Franky D. Gonzalez is a Colombian-American playwright living in Dallas, TX originally from Queens, NY. He holds a BA in Theatre from the University of North Texas and has had productions and readings with several theater companies and colleges in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex since 2011, including Kitchen Dog Theater, Camp Death Productions, Sundown Collaborative Theatre, Nouveau 47, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, the UNT University Players, The Aviary, University of North Texas, Mountain View College, and Grayson College. He also serves as the Dra...
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...
Rehana Lew Mirza
Rehana Lew Mirza is an alum of the Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop at The Lark and holds a shared Mellon National Playwrights residency at Ma-Yi Theater with husband Mike Lew. Full-length plays include: Soldier X (productions: Ma-Yi, Brooklyn College. NYSCA Commission, Lark Studio Retreat, Kilroy selection); Lonely Leela (productions: Desipina; LPAC. readings: Magic Theatre, New Georges); Barriers (productions: Desipina; Asian American Theater Company); Neighborhood Watch (NNPN/InterAct commission); Hatefuck (readings: Primary Fresh Ink and ...
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...
Liza Jessie Peterson
Liza Jessie Peterson is author of ALL DAY; A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island. She is a renowned actress, poet, playwright, author, educator, and youth advocate who has been steadfast in her commitment to incarcerated populations both professionally and artistically for over two decades. She was featured in Ava DuVernay’s Emmy award winning documentary The 13th (Netflix) and was a consultant on Bill Moyers documentary RIKERS (PBS). Liza has written several plays, including her one-woman-show tour de force, Th...
Stacey Rose
Stacey Rose hails from Elizabeth, New Jersey and Charlotte, North Carolina respectively. She is a proud mom, daughter, and sibling. She earned a BA in Theatre at UNC Charlotte and is an alum of the MFA program in Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. While at Tisch she was the recipient of an AAUW Career Development Grant, was a Future Screenwriting Fellow, and honored with The Goldberg Prize for her play The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit. Her work has been presented at: UNC Charlotte, On Q Productions, NYU Tisch School of the Art...
Charly Evon Simpson
Charly Evon Simpson’s plays include Jump, Behind the Sheet, Scratching the Surface, form of a girl unknown, it’s not a trip it’s a journey, and more. Her work has been seen and/or developed with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Chautauqua Theater Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, The Flea, P73’s Summer Residency, National New Play Network through its NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop and National Showcase of New Plays, and others. Behind the Sheet will be having its world premiere at Ensemble Studio Theatre this January. Jump will r...
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...
Juliany Taveras
Juliany Taveras is a Dominican-American writer, photographer, and theatermaker from Brooklyn. Their playwriting has been nationally recognized (The Kilroys List 2016, 50 Playwrights Project List 2018) and their images/poetry have been published online and in print. Their plays have been developed and/or staged with Corkscrew Theater Festival, Manhattan Rep, The Bechdel Group, WOW Café Theatre, Greenhouse Theater Center, and Unbound Theatre Company, among others. Juliany is a graduate of Vassar College and the St. Joseph’s College Writer’s Foundry...
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...
David Zheng
David Zheng is a first-generation Chinese American playwright, actor, and visual artist from the Bronx. He is the recipient of The Lark’s 2018 Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellowship, The 2017 Playwriting Observer Fellowship at Labyrinth Theater Company, and the 2017 inaugural Greenhouse Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm. Plays include KINGSBRIDGE, Boogie Down Bastards, Ghetto Baptism, and What’s In The Tent? His work has been developed at The Public Theater, The Labyrinth Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theater Company, The Lark, and Rattlestick ...