2017-2018 Playwrights
Johnna Adams
Resident Playwright
Johnna Adams is an Astoria, NY-based writer who recently received her fifth off-off production from Flux Theatre Ensemble...
Joshua Allen
Resident Playwright
Joshua Allen, a native of Chicago, is the recipient of a New Voices/New York Fellowship from the Lark Play Development...
Boni B. Alvarez
Resident Playwright
BONI B. ALVAREZ is a Los Angeles-based playwright-actor. His plays include America Adjacent, Bloodletting, Fixed, Nicky...
Christina Anderson
Resident Playwright
Christina Anderson’s plays include How to Catch Creation, pen/man/ship, The Ashes Under Gait City, Man in Love,...
Clare Barron
Resident Playwright
Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington.
Andy Bragen
Resident Playwright
Andy Bragen’s honors include a Workspace Residency and a Process Space Residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural...
Kirk Wood Bromley
Resident Playwright
Kirk Wood Bromley, aka “Shakespeare on mushrooms” (LA Weekly), has been creating verse plays in NYC since 1990. In that...
Sam Chanse
Resident Playwright
Sam Chanse is the author of TRIGGER; MONUMENT, OR FOUR SISTERS (A SLOTH PLAY); THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION; FRUITING...
Carla Ching
Resident Playwright
An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and...
J. Julian Christopher
Resident Playwright
J. Julian Christopher is a Queer, Puerto Rican and Dominican playwright. He holds an MFA in Acting from The New School...
Mia Chung
Resident Playwright
Mia Chung's plays include You for Me for You, Catch as Catch Can, and This Exquisite Corpse....
Clarence Coo
Resident Playwright
Clarence Coo is a recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award and the 2012 Yale Drama Series Prize. His plays include Beautiful...
Kate Cortesi
Resident Playwright
Kate Cortesi is a Brooklyn and Boston based playwright from Washington, D.C. Her play which tackles the #metoo movement...
Kara Lee Corthron
Resident Playwright
Kara Lee Corthron’s plays include Welcome to Fear City (Kilroys’ List 2016, CATF 2017, Kansas City Rep 2018)...
Erin Courtney
Resident Playwright
Erin Courtney's play I Will Be Gone premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors...
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Resident Playwright
aesthetic Rumi has a poem that goes: "The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make...
Kristoffer Diaz
Resident Playwright
Kristoffer Diaz is a New Dramatists alumni playwright, screenwriter, and educator. His play The Elaborate Entrance of...
Jessica Dickey
Resident Playwright
JESSICA DICKEY is an award-winning playwright whose writing was hailed by New York Times as having “freshness, economy,...
Olivia Dufault
Resident Playwright
Olivia Dufault’s plays include “Year of the Rooster” (New York Time's Critics' Pick), “The Tomb of King Tot” (New York...
Matthew Freeman
Resident Playwright
Matthew Freeman is a Brooklyn-based playwright and director. He is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a current resident...
Sarah Gancher
Resident Playwright
Sarah Gancher loves big ideas, epic stories, and deep comedy. Her recent works include I’ll Get You Back Again (...
Morgan Gould
Resident Playwright
Morgan Gould is a writer/ director who is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists and current Lila Acheson Wallace...
Jennifer Haley
Resident Playwright
Jennifer Haley is a playwright whose work delves into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human...
Barbara Hammond
Resident Playwright
Barbara Hammond is an alumnus of New Dramatists, a citizen of the United States and Ireland, and a long-time resident of...
Lucas Hnath
Resident Playwright
Lucas Hnath's plays include Hillary and Clinton, Red Speedo, The Christians, A Public...
Samuel D. Hunter
Resident Playwright
Samuel D. Hunter’s plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media...
Chisa Hutchinson
Resident Playwright
Chisa Hutchinson (B.A. Vassar College; M.F.A NYU - Tisch School of the Arts) is a New York-based playwright and...
Aditi Brennan Kapil
Resident Playwright
ADITI BRENNAN KAPIL is a television and theatre writer, actress, and director. She is of Bulgarian and Indian descent,...
MJ Kaufman
Resident Playwright
MJ Kaufman is a playwright and television writer from Portland, OR. Their work has been seen at the Public Theater, WP...
Kristen Kosmas
Resident Playwright
Kristen Kosmas is a writer and performer. She has had new works commissioned by On the Boards (Seattle), the Chocolate...
Basil Kreimendahl
Resident Playwright
Basil Kreimendahl’s play Sidewinders won the Rella Lossy Playwright’s Award and had its world premiere at The...
Mike Lew
Resident Playwright
Mike Lew is thrilled to join New Dramatists as a resident playwright, having previously served as their admin associate....
Mona Mansour
Resident Playwright
Mona’s play WE SWIM, WE TALK, WE GO TO WAR, directed by Evren Odcikin, will premiere at SF’s Golden Thread in winter 2018...
Laura Marks
Resident Playwright
Laura Marks became the first recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award for an Emerging Playwright in...
Aya Ogawa
Resident Playwright
Aya Ogawa is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, performer and translator for the theater. She challenges...
Matthew Paul Olmos
Resident Playwright
Matthew Paul Olmos is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient (2014 Lab, 2013 UCROSS, 2009 Time...
Jiehae Park
Resident Playwright
Jiehae Park's plays include peerless (upcoming at Primary Stages, Yale Rep premiere, Cherry Lane MP, Marin Theatre Co,...
christopher oscar peña
Resident Playwright
christopher oscar peña is a writer originally from California, now residing in Harlem and LA.
His work has been...
Kenneth Prestininzi
Resident Playwright
Kenneth Prestininzi’s play IMPURE THOUGHTS (WITHOUT APOLOGY), inspired by the life story of Sor Juana, was read in June...
Vickie Ramirez
Resident Playwright
Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a founding member of Chukalokoli Native Theater Ensemble, Amerinda Theater and a member of...
Lynn Rosen
Resident Playwright
Lynn writes tragedies disguised as comedies which reveal her affection for the strivers of the world.
Tammy Ryan
Resident Playwright
Tammy Ryan's plays have been performed across the United States and internationally. She was awarded the Francesca Primus...
Mark Schultz
Resident Playwright
Mark Schultz is a playwright and Episcopal priest. A resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of Rising...
Jen Silverman
Resident Playwright
Jen’s theatre work includes: The Roommate (Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Rep,...
Aurin Squire
Resident Playwright
Aurin Squire is an award-winning playwright, reporter, and multimedia artist. He is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte...
Susan Soon He Stanton
Resident Playwright
Susan Soon He Stanton’s plays include Both Your Houses (ACT/Crowded Fire) we, the invisibles (Actors...
Andrea Stolowitz
Resident Playwright
Andrea Stolowitz is the Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence and a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland,...
Lloyd Suh
Resident Playwright
Lloyd Suh is the author of The Chinese Lady, Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American...
Karinne Keithley Syers
Resident Playwright
Karinne Keithley Syers is a writer and teacher based in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Cori Thomas
Resident Playwright
Cori Thomas is a playwright and actress.
Melisa Tien
Resident Playwright
Melisa Tien is a New York-based playwright, lyricist, and librettist. She is the author of the plays The Boyd Show...
Mfoniso Udofia
Resident Playwright
Mfoniso Udofia, a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator, attended Wellesley College and obtained...
Ken Urban
Resident Playwright
Ken Urban’s plays include A Guide for the Homesick, The Remains, Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future...
Brian Watkins
Resident Playwright
Brian Watkins is a Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow and a New Dramatists resident playwright. Watkins is...
David Wiener
Resident Playwright
David Wiener’s play, Extraordinary Chambers, is the recipient of the 2010 ACT New Play Award, the 2011 LA Drama...
A. Zell Williams
Resident Playwright
A. Zell Williams writes compelling stories about race, class, violence, crime, and politics that blur the line between...
Lauren Yee
Resident Playwright
Lauren Yee’s CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep, subsequent productions at...
Stefanie Zadravec
Resident Playwright
Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a Core Writer with the Playwright’s Center in...