Hello! I’m Elise Wien, a playwright who works in the genre of tender absurdism – building worlds that reflect the cruel and chaotic nature of our own, with characters who must rely on each other for connection and support to survive them.

My plays include Osher & the Infinite Curtain (Residency, VoxLab), OTP (Academic Production, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), [cowboy face] (Winner, Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting; Finalist, Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers), and Craters, or the making of the making of the moon landing (Academic Production, Smith College; Reading, Corkscrew Theater Festival). I have worked with Undiscovered Countries, The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, Dixon Place, The Tank, American Lore Theater, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. I am a recent graduate of Boston University’s Playwriting MFA program.

You can find my playwriting resume here, and my New Play Exchange profile here.