NEW YORK CITY: New Dramatists has named seven new writers to affix its resident playwright firm. The writers will likely be in residence by way of June 2030.

The writers embody Haruna Lee, Shayan Lotfi, Deepa Purohit, Jordan Seavey, SM Shephard-Massat, Phillip Christian Smith, and Bryna Turner. They may kick off their seven-year residencies with a night of readings and celebration on the annual New Playwright Welcome this fall.

Lee is a playwright, screenwriter, and educator greatest recognized for Suicide Forest at Ma-Yi Theater Firm and the Bushwick Starr, for which they gained an Obie Award. The play was additionally named to the Kilroys Record. Lee’s work has additionally been produced by Dixon Place, Ars Nova, WP Theater, and Soho Rep, and they’re the recipient of the Steinberg Scholar Playwright Award, the Ollie Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and the New Dramatists Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship, amongst others. Their work has been printed by 53rd State Press and Desk Work Press, and so they write for Pachinko on Apple TV+ and The Flight Attendant on HBO Max. Lee has taught playwright and devised theatre at Brooklyn School, Stanford College, York School, New York College, and Tempo College.

Lotfi’s work has been developed and offered on the Atlantic Theater Firm, South Coast Repertory, the Lark, and Boston Court docket Pasadena. He’s at present beneath fee from the Atlantic and South Coast Rep and has been a member of the Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm and Web page 73’s I-73 Writers Group. Lotfi has additionally held residencies at MacDowell, Millay Arts, and the Marble Home Challenge, and was voted third most eccentric in highschool.

Purohit is a Brooklyn-based playwright who made her Off-Broadway debut this 12 months with Elyria on the Atlantic. The manufacturing was nominated for a Drama League Award. Purohit is the recipient of the 2023 Laurents/Hatcher Basis Award, a 2022-23 Edgerton Basis Award, and a 2023 Atlantic and New York State Council on the Arts fee. She co-founded and ran Rising Circle Theater Collective and its writers lab from 2000-2012, and is a former member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Purohit holds a BA from Northwestern College, an MPH from Columbia College, and an MFA from Brooklyn School.

Seavey is a playwright and screenwriter from Brooklyn whose play Homos, Or Everybody in America was named one of many 10 greatest theatre occasions of 2016 by New York Journal. From 2003-2020, Seavey co-created over 15 devised works with the theatre firm CollaborationTown. Their work was produced by the New Victory Theater, LCT3, and the New Ohio Theatre, and their play The Momentum was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. Seavey is an alum of the Public Theater’s Rising Writers Group, the Soho Rep Author/Director Lab, and Main Phases’s American Writers Group. They’re at present a Regular Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop.

Shephard-Massat’s work has been produced by the Denver Heart for the Performing Arts, the Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts, and the Black Rep, amongst others. She is the recipient of a Helen Hayes Award, the American Theatre Critics Affiliation’s M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, and the Adrienne Kennedy Society’s Younger Dramatists Award, amongst others. She is an alumna of the O’Neill Nationwide Playwrights Convention and is the founder and host of the TERTULIA Group, a gathering place for Atlanta’s Black playwrights. Shephard-Massat is an alumna of New York College.

Smith is at present a Tennessee Williams Scholar on the Sewanee Writers’ Convention and is a earlier Playwrights Realm fellow and Lambda Literary fellow. A army brat, Smith has lived in Ohio, Texas, California, New Mexico, England, and Germany. Final 12 months, he directed Tempo College’s manufacturing of his play The Chechens. He’s the co-literary director of Beautiful Corpse Firm and is at present beneath fee with Cleveland Playhouse. He holds a BFA from the College of New Mexico and MFAs from the Yale Faculty of Drama and Hunter School, and teaches at Tempo and Hunter.

Turner is a Brooklyn-based playwright from California whose play At The Marriage ceremony premiered at LCT3 final 12 months and acquired the Laurie Basis’s Theatre Visions Fund Award. They’re additionally recognized for his or her play Bull in a China Store and they’re at present beneath fee with Lincoln Heart Theater. Turner is an alum of the Clubbed Thumb Early Profession Writers’ Group and the WP Theater Lab, and is a MacDowell fellow. They maintain a BA from Mount Holyoke School and an MFA from Rutgers College, the place they’ve taught playwriting.

New Dramatists is devoted to the playwright and pursues a singular mission: to offer playwrights time and area within the firm of gifted friends to create work, notice their creative potential, and make lasting contributions to the theatre. Within the 74-years since its founding, roughly 700 new dramatists have handed by way of its doorways, creating work that has laid the inspiration for up to date American dramatic literature. As of 2022, the group had a finances of roughly $1.7 million.

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