Brianna Barrett playwright

BRIANNA BARRETT

Brianna Barrett is a writer and performer fascinated with identity crises, double lives, mortality, grief, dick jokes with heart, and the forgotten history of stuff that happened surprisingly-not-that-long-ago. Recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize in Comic Playwriting and twice-voted Portland’s Best Storyteller in Willamette Week. Originally from Portland, OR, her theatrical work has been developed at Theatre33, Naked Angels LA, and with LineStorm Playwrights at Artists Repertory Theatre. Her short plays are published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals and Applause Books. She has an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA. briannabarrett.com