Alumni Playwrights
Class of 2025
J. Julian Christopher
Alumni Playwright
2018-2025
J. Julian Christopher is a Queer, Puerto Rican and Dominican playwright. He holds an MFA in Acting from The New School...
Sarah Gancher
Alumni Playwright
2018-2025
Sarah Gancher loves big ideas, epic stories, and deep comedy. Her recent works include I’ll Get You Back Again (...
Mike Lew
Alumni Playwright
2018-2025
Mike Lew is thrilled to join New Dramatists as a resident playwright, having previously served as their admin associate....
Vickie Ramirez
Alumni Playwright
2018-2025
Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is a founding member of Chukalokoli Native Theater Ensemble, Amerinda Theater and a member of...
Tammy Ryan
Alumni Playwright
2018-2025
Tammy Ryan's plays have been performed across the United States and internationally. She was awarded the Francesca Primus...
Susan Soon He Stanton
Alumni Playwright
2018-2025
Susan Soon He Stanton’s plays include Both Your Houses (ACT/Crowded Fire) we, the invisibles (Actors...
Lauren Yee
Alumni Playwright
2018-2025
Lauren Yee’s CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep, subsequent productions at...
Class of 2024
Johnna Adams
Alumni Playwright
2017-2024
Johnna Adams is an Astoria, NY-based writer who recently received her fifth off-off production from Flux Theatre Ensemble...
Boni B. Alvarez
Alumni Playwright
2017-2024
BONI B. ALVAREZ is a Los Angeles-based playwright-actor. His plays include America Adjacent, Bloodletting, Fixed, Nicky...
Kirk Wood Bromley
Alumni Playwright
2017-2024
Kirk Wood Bromley, aka “Shakespeare on mushrooms” (LA Weekly), has been creating verse plays in NYC since 1990. In that...
Morgan Gould
Alumni Playwright
2017-2024
Morgan Gould is a writer/ director who is a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists and current Lila Acheson Wallace...
MJ Kaufman
Alumni Playwright
2017-2024
MJ Kaufman is a playwright and television writer from Portland, OR. Their work has been seen at the Public Theater, WP...
Aya Ogawa
Alumni Playwright
2017-2024
Aya Ogawa is a Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, performer and translator for the theater. She challenges...
Jiehae Park
Alumni Playwright
2017-2024
Jiehae Park's plays include peerless (upcoming at Primary Stages, Yale Rep premiere, Cherry Lane MP, Marin Theatre Co,...
Andrea Stolowitz
Alumni Playwright
2017-2024
Andrea Stolowitz is the Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence and a...
Class of 2023
Sam Chanse
Alumni Playwright
2016-2023
Sam Chanse is the author of TRIGGER; MONUMENT, OR FOUR SISTERS (A SLOTH PLAY); THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION; FRUITING...
Kate Cortesi
Alumni Playwright
2016-2023
Kate Cortesi is a Brooklyn and Boston based playwright from Washington, D.C. Her play which tackles the #metoo movement...
Aurin Squire
Alumni Playwright
2016-2023
Aurin Squire is an award-winning playwright, reporter, and multimedia artist. He is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte...
Lloyd Suh
Alumni Playwright
2016-2023
Lloyd Suh is the author of The Chinese Lady, Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American...
Mfoniso Udofia
Alumni Playwright
2016-2023
Mfoniso Udofia, a first-generation Nigerian-American storyteller and educator, attended Wellesley College and obtained...
Ken Urban
Alumni Playwright
2016-2023
Ken Urban’s plays include A Guide for the Homesick, The Remains, Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future...
Brian Watkins
Alumni Playwright
2016-2023
Brian Watkins is a Juilliard Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow and a New Dramatists resident playwright. Watkins is...
Class of 2022
Clare Barron
Alumni Playwright
2015-2022
Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington.
Kara Lee Corthron
Alumni Playwright
2015-2022
Kara Lee Corthron’s plays include Welcome to Fear City (Kilroys’ List 2016, CATF 2017, Kansas City Rep 2018)...
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Alumni Playwright
2015-2022
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Rumi has a poem that goes: "The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is...
Jessica Dickey
Alumni Playwright
2015-2022
JESSICA DICKEY is an award-winning playwright whose writing was hailed by New York Times as having “freshness, economy,...
Jen Silverman
Alumni Playwright
2015-2022
Jen’s theatre work includes: The Roommate (Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Rep,...
Karinne Keithley Syers
Alumni Playwright
2015-2022
Karinne Keithley Syers is a writer and teacher based in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Cori Thomas
Alumni Playwright
2015-2022
Cori Thomas is a playwright and actress.
Melisa Tien
Alumni Playwright
2015-2022
Melisa Tien is a New York-based playwright, lyricist, and librettist. She is the author of the plays...
Class of 2021
Olivia Dufault
Alumni Playwright
2014-2021
Olivia Dufault’s plays include “Year of the Rooster” (New York Time's Critics' Pick), “The Tomb of King Tot” (New York...
Matthew Freeman
Alumni Playwright
2014-2021
Matthew Freeman is a Brooklyn-based playwright and director. He is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a current resident...
Aditi Brennan Kapil
Alumni Playwright
2014-2021
ADITI BRENNAN KAPIL is a television and theatre writer, actress, and director. She is of Bulgarian and Indian descent,...
Basil Kreimendahl
Alumni Playwright
2014-2021
Basil Kreimendahl’s play Sidewinders won the Rella Lossy Playwright’s Award and had its world premiere at The...
Matthew Paul Olmos
Alumni Playwright
2014-2021
Matthew Paul Olmos is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient (2014 Lab, 2013 UCROSS, 2009 Time...
christopher oscar peña
Alumni Playwright
2014-2021
christopher oscar peña is a writer originally from California, now residing in Harlem and LA.
His work has been...
Lynn Rosen
Alumni Playwright
2014-2021
Lynn writes tragedies disguised as comedies which reveal her affection for the strivers of the world.
A. Zell Williams
Alumni Playwright
2014-2021
A. Zell Williams writes compelling stories about race, class, violence, crime, and politics that blur the line between...
Class of 2020
Carla Ching
Alumni Playwright
2013-2020
An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and...
Jennifer Haley
Alumni Playwright
2013-2020
Jennifer Haley is a playwright whose work delves into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human...
Samuel D. Hunter
Alumni Playwright
2013-2020
Samuel D. Hunter’s plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media...
Chisa Hutchinson
Alumni Playwright
2013-2020
Chisa Hutchinson (B.A. Vassar College; M.F.A NYU - Tisch School of the Arts) is a New York-based playwright and...
Kristen Kosmas
Alumni Playwright
2013-2020
Kristen Kosmas is a writer and performer. She has had new works commissioned by On the Boards (Seattle), the Chocolate...
Mona Mansour
Alumni Playwright
2013-2020
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...
Mark Schultz
Alumni Playwright
2013-2020
Mark Schultz is a playwright and Episcopal priest. A resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of Rising...
Class of 2019
Christina Anderson
Alumni Playwright
2012-2019
Christina Anderson’s plays include How to Catch Creation, pen/man/ship, The Ashes Under Gait City, Man in Love,...
Andy Bragen
Alumni Playwright
2012-2019
Andy Bragen’s honors include a Workspace Residency and a Process Space Residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural...
Clarence Coo
Alumni Playwright
2012-2019
Clarence Coo is a recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award and the 2012 Yale Drama Series Prize. His plays include Beautiful...
Erin Courtney
Alumni Playwright
2012-2019
Erin Courtney's play I Will Be Gone premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors...
Laura Marks
Alumni Playwright
2012-2019
Laura Marks became the first recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award for an Emerging Playwright in...
Kenneth Prestininzi
Alumni Playwright
2012-2019
Kenneth Prestininzi’s play IMPURE THOUGHTS (WITHOUT APOLOGY), inspired by the life story of Sor Juana, was read in June...
Class of 2018
Joshua Allen
Alumni Playwright
2011-2018
Joshua Allen, a native of Chicago, is the recipient of a New Voices/New York Fellowship from the Lark Play Development...
Mia Chung
Alumni Playwright
2011-2018
Mia Chung's plays include You for Me for You, Catch as Catch Can, and This Exquisite Corpse....
Kristoffer Diaz
Alumni Playwright
2011-2018
Kristoffer Diaz is a New Dramatists alumni playwright, screenwriter, and educator. His play The Elaborate Entrance of...
Barbara Hammond
Alumni Playwright
2011-2018
Barbara Hammond is an alumnus of New Dramatists, a citizen of the United States and Ireland, and a long-time resident of...
Lucas Hnath
Alumni Playwright
2011-2018
Lucas Hnath's plays include Hillary and Clinton, Red Speedo, The Christians, A Public...
David Wiener
Alumni Playwright
2011-2018
David Wiener’s play, Extraordinary Chambers, is the recipient of the 2010 ACT New Play Award, the 2011 LA Drama...
Stefanie Zadravec
Alumni Playwright
2011-2018
Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a Core Writer with the Playwright’s Center in...
Class of 2017
Annie Baker
Alumni Playwright
2010-2017
Annie Baker's plays include The Antipodes (Signature Theatre), John (National Theatre/Signature Theatre...
Daniel Beaty
Alumni Playwright
2010-2017
Daniel Beaty is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and composer. Recently, his play, Through the Night, had...
Madeleine George
Alumni Playwright
2010-2017
Madeleine George has been a member of New Dramatists since 2010. Her plays include Hurricane Diane, The (...
Sibyl Kempson
Alumni Playwright
2010-2017
Sibyl Kempson’s plays have been presented in the United States, Germany, and Norway. Her work has received support from...
James McManus
Alumni Playwright
2010-2017
James McManus (Playwright) is the author of nine plays: Love on San Pedro, Dry Bones, The Friendly Tavern, Dorothy 6,...
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Alumni Playwright
2010-2017
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, 6’6”, is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include The Totalitarians (...
Betty Shamieh
Alumni Playwright
2010-2017
Betty Shamieh received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship for Drama and Performance Art. She was selected as the winner of The...
Francine Volpe
Alumni Playwright
2010-2017
Francine Volpe is a playwright and screenwriter who was born and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently writing for the...
Class of 2016
Sharon Bridgforth
Alumni Playwright
2009-2016
A resident playwright at New Dramatists 2009 - 2016, Sharon is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist and a 2016 Creative Capital...
Michael Golamco
Alumni Playwright
2009-2016
Michael Golamco is an LA-based playwright and TV/Film writer. His play Year Zero received acclaimed runs at...
Richard Maxwell
Alumni Playwright
2009-2016
Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York and the artistic director of New York City Players (...
Qui Nguyen
Alumni Playwright
2009-2016
Originally from Arkansas, Qui Nguyen is a playwright, TV writer, and all around pop-culture nerd. When he’s not geeking...
Sylvan Oswald
Alumni Playwright
2009-2016
Sylvan Oswald is an interdisciplinary artist who creates plays, texts, publications, and video. Trained as a playwright,...
Andrea Thome
Alumni Playwright
2009-2016
Andrea Thome's play Pinkolandia was awarded the Lark Play Development Center's Launching New Plays program...
Class of 2015
David Adjmi
Alumni Playwright
2008-2015
David Adjmi was called "virtuosic" by the New York Times, one of the "best and most original theatre artists of...
Kate Fodor
Alumni Playwright
2008-2015
Kate Fodor is a 2013 Guggenheim fellow in playwriting. Her comedy Rx was recently produced Off-Broadway by...
Rob Handel
Alumni Playwright
2008-2015
Rob Handel has collaborated as a playwright or librettist with 13P, New York Stage and Film, Long Wharf, SPF, Target...
Dan LeFranc
Alumni Playwright
2008-2015
Dan LeFranc received the 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for Sixty Miles to Silver Lake...
Deb Margolin
Alumni Playwright
2008-2015
Deb Margolin, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2008, is a playwright, actor and founding member of Split...
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Alumni Playwright
2008-2015
Tarell Alvin McCraney is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the...
Susan Mosakowski
Alumni Playwright
2008-2015
Susan Mosakowski is a playwright, director, and Co-Artistic Director of Creation Production Company, an interdisciplinary...
Jenny Schwartz
Alumni Playwright
2008-2015
Jenny Schwartz’s plays include GOD'S EAR, SOMEWHERE FUN, CAUSE FOR ALARM, IOWA and 41-DERFUL. Jenny directed 41-DERFUL...
Class of 2014
Eugenie Chan
Alumni Playwright
2007-2014
Eugenie is a 5th generation San Franciscan whose forefathers sold slippers in Chinatown, dry goods in the desert, and...
Sarah Hammond
Alumni Playwright
2007-2014
A resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2007, Sarah's plays are Green Girl, The Extinction of Felix...
Taylor Mac
Alumni Playwright
2007-2014
Taylor Mac is a theater artist (who uses the gender pronoun, judy) which means judy’s a playwright, actor, singer-...
Carlos Murillo
Alumni Playwright
2007-2014
Carlos Murillo has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2007. His plays have been produced at Theater der...
Julie Marie Myatt
Alumni Playwright
2007-2014
Julie Marie Myatt’s play, The Happy Ones, premiered at South Coast Rep, and won the LA Drama Critic Circle’s Ted...
J. T. Rogers
Alumni Playwright
2007-2014
J.T. Rogers’s plays include BLOOD AND GIFTS (National Theatre, London; Lincoln Center Theater, Drama Desk Award Nominee...
Deborah Stein
Alumni Playwright
2007-2014
Deborah Stein’s work has been produced and developed nationally at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Theatre @ Boston...
John Walch
Alumni Playwright
2007-2014
John Walch's plays include In The Book Of, Tea-Totaled, The Dinosaur Within, TransAtlantic...