Quiara Alegría Hudes
Quiara Alegría Hudes is the author of a trilogy of plays including ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE (2006), WATER BY THE […]
Gloria Williams
Gloria Williams is an award-winning British actress and playwright who is a graduate of The Royal Court Theatre Young Writers’ […]
Christopher Demos-Brown
Christopher Demos-Brown has written over a dozen full-length plays and screenplays. His honors include the Laurents/Hatcher Award, a Steinberg Citation […]
Loy A. Webb
Loy A. Webb is a Chicago-born playwright, attorney and theatre journalist. Her plays include The Light (MCC Theater 2018/2019, Outer […]
Eisa Davis
Eisa Davis is a writer, composer and actress working on stage and screen. A recipient of the 2020 Creative Capital […]
Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar was born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of “American Dervish,” […]
Maria Irene Fornes
María Irene Fornés, considered by many to be the mother of Latinx playwriting, was an influential and award-winning playwright, director, […]
Eboni Booth
Eboni Booth is a writer and actor from New York City. Her play Paris had its premiere at the Atlantic […]
August Wilson
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Charles Gordone
Charles Gordone was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator. He was the first African American to win the annual […]