August Wilson
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma […]
Suzan-Lori Parks
A playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and songwriter, Suzan-Lori’s play TOPDOG/UNDERDOG won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 2001 she received […]
Jose Rivera
The first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award, for “The Motorcycle Diaries,” Rivera is also the […]
Tanya Saracho
Tanya Saracho was born in Sinaloa, México. She is a playwright and Television Writer who’s worked on ‘How To Get […]
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play RUINED has received an Obie, the Lucille Lortel Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, […]
A.Rey Pamatmat
A. Rey Pamatmat’s play after all the terrible things I do premiered at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and runs at […]
Dennis McIntyre
Dennis McIntyre (1942-1990) was an award-winning American novelist and playwright who examined the ills of American society in such works […]
Dominique Morisseau
Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle), which includes the following plays: Skeleton Crew (Atlantic […]
Wajdi Mouawad
Wajdi Mouawad (author of Scorched, Tideline, Forestsand Heavens, among others) has established himself as a uniquely original player on the […]
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang’s plays include M. BUTTERFLY (1988 Tony Award, 1989 Pulitzer Finalist), GOLDEN CHILD (1998 Tony nomination, 1997 OBIE […]
Naomi Iizuka
Polaroid Stories was originally commissioned by En Garde Arts in New York, produced in the 1997 Humana Festival of New […]
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ plays include NEIGHBORS (Public Theater), APPROPRIATE (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and […]
Leslie Lee
For the stage, Leslie Lee is the author of numerous plays that have been produced in New York City and […]
Charles Gordone
Charles Gordone was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator. He was the first African American to win the annual […]
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a longtime member of NYC’s LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents […]
Lorraine Hansbury
When Lorraine Hansberry’s (1930-1965) A Raisin in the Sun appeared on Broadway in 1959, the artist became, at twenty-nine, the […]
Quiara Huedes
Quiara Alegría Hudes is the author of a trilogy of plays including ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE (2006), WATER BY THE […]
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Plays include MARYS SEACOLE (Obie Award); FAIRVIEW (2019 Pulitzer Prize); REALLY; SOCIAL CREATURES; WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION […]
Maria Irene Fornes
Fornés was born on May 14, 1930, in Havana, Cuba, to Carlos Luis and Carmen Hismenia Fornés. After her father […]
Charles Fuller
Charles H. Fuller Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his play A Soldier’s Play, for which he received […]
Lydia K. Diamond
Lydia R. Diamond’s award-winning plays include: Smart People, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, Harriet […]
Colman Domingo
The Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League Award nominated and OBIE, GLAAD and Lucille Lortel Award winning actor, playwright and […]
Jocelyn Bioh
Jocelyn Bioh is an award-winning Ghanaian-American writer and performer from New York City. Her plays include SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE […]
Carla Ching
An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and wrote, performed and […]