Elise Wien in a New York-based writer making work that is dark, comedic, and always a little tender. Featuring: Dads who experience enlightenment in YouTube Kabbalah seminars, Interns who fall in love with robot replicas of their ex-girlfriends, and Teens who write Barack Obama fan fiction.

Plays include OBLAST (Residency, the cell theatre), Osher & the Infinite Curtain (Jewish Plays Project), OTP (Finalist, O’Neill NPC), [cowboy face] (Winner, Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting; Finalist, Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers), and Craters (Production, Smith College; Reading, Corkscrew Theater Festival). Co-written musicals include Depresh Mode (Evolution Festival) and GUANOMANIA! (EST/Sloan commission).

She has developed work with The Tank, The Workshop Theater, Dixon Place, The Road Theatre Company, American Lore Theater, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and a graduate of Boston University’s Playwriting MFA program.

You can find her resume here and her New Play Exchange profile here.