Steph Del Rosso is a playwright, fiction writer, screenwriter, and educator. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, and a winner of the Steinberg Playwright Award and the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award. Her plays have been produced nationally and internationally and include Precarious (Mosaic Theater, Spring 2026), 53% Of (Second Stage Theater), The Gradient (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill (The Flea), Damage Control, Adjuncts, and more. They are published by Concord Theatricals and Dramatists Play Services. Steph is a current Resident Artist at the cell, a former Theater Masters Visionary Playwright and an alum of the Shank Playwriting Fellowship at The Public, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, and the New Georges Audrey Residency. Her work has received fellowships, development, and support from the Bogliasco Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, La Jolla Playhouse, Ojai Playwrights’ Conference, The Kennedy Center, Alliance Theatre, Studio Theatre, and others. She is the winner of the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Steph received her MFA from UC-San Diego and currently teaches Playwriting to middle and high school students at the Saint Ann’s School. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.
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Monday, October 9 at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 10 at 7:00 p.m.
October 23 - October 29
Violet is newly retired and eager to spend more quality time with her daughter Tillie. But her visit goes sideways as New York is gripped by yet another oppressive heatwave. Inside Tillie’s cramped apartment, cabin fever sets in, revealing hidden truths and deep divides. Incisive and darkly humorous, Precarious explores mothers and daughters, and what we choose to leave behind in a world transformed by climate change.
I wrote the first draft of Precarious at two wonderful artist residencies, the Headlands Center for the Arts and Willapa Bay. I took long walks, met amazing people, and spent a lot of time alone. But it wasn’t until I shared Precarious with others that it felt real. I’m so grateful to Playwrights’ Center for another chance to get the play out of my head and into a room of collaborators so I can develop it in creative community.
Steph Del Rosso
