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