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Playwrights Union
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Meet the Playwrights
Lisa Kenner Grissom is an LA-based playwright whose work explores complex social issues through intimate...
Alex Goldberg is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director. More than a dozen of his plays,...
Jennie Webb is an independent Los Angeles playwright and dramaturg (she created and ran the...
Victor Lesniewski’s plays include The Fifth Domain (World Premiere at Contemporary American Theater Festival), Couriers...
Wendy Weiner is a playwright and TV writer. Her work walks the line between comedy...
Vasanti Saxena is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work explores the fissures of family and...
Juan Francisco Villa is a Colombian-American award-winning published writer who grew up in The Lower...
Julianne Jigour’s plays have been produced by or developed with PlayGround, the Antaeus Playwrights Lab,...
Matt is a Drama Desk-nominated comedic playwright and Emmy, Humanitas and Sentinel Award-winning TV writer.
Bernardo Cubría is the co-writer of the short Spanish Class that won Best Comedy at...
Jennifer Maisel’s The Last Seder premiered Off-Broadway with Gaby Hoffmann and Greg Mullavey after productions...
Carolyn Kras is a writer whose honors include the Visionary Playwright Award, Fulbright Fellowship, Hamptons...
JAMI BRANDLI’s plays include The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project: A Comedy, M-Theory: a play told...
Kansas City native, Marlow Wyatt is a magna cum laude graduate of Howard University’s Theater...
Levi Jelks, an Atlanta born native, is currently the proud co-recipient of the KCACTF Lorraine...
Jennifer Berry’s play “Big Pharma” about the rise of the anti-depressant drug industry and the...
Kevin Douglas (writer) received a B.F.A in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University....
Minita is most known for her critically acclaimed solo-show Muthaland which was workshopped at Silk...
Brianna Barrett is a writer and performer fascinated with identity crises, double lives, mortality, grief,...
Erick Rudnick started out as an actor and began writing by performing his own one-person...
David Myers’ work has been developed at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep,...
TIRA PALMQUIST’s plays include Two Degrees, Ten Mile Lake (Serenbe Playhouse), Age of Bees (MadLab Theater, Tesseract), And Then They Fell, and...
Both of David’s plays, Pang Spa and Two Stop, received critical praise including Outstanding Production of a...
Christina Ham’s plays have been developed and produced both nationally and internationally with the Kennedy...
Jeanette Farr is a playwright, producer and director of new plays, and holds an MFA...
Khari Wyatt has written for theatre, television, and various journalistic publications such as the National...
Was the Shakespeare consultant on The Tragedy of Macbeth film starring Denzel Washington and Frances...