McKnight National Residency and Commission
Andrea Assaf is Lebanese American poet, playwright, director, performer, and cultural organizer. She’s the founding Artistic & Executive Director of…
Venturous Fellow
Nissy Aya (nissy; she/ze/we) is a Black femme from the Bronx. She and all her younger selves tell stories and…
McKnight Theater Artist Fellow
As a costume and scenic designer for theatre, opera, and dance Sarah has worked with companies including the Ten Thousand…
Core Writer
Amy Berryman is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and teaching artist originally from Seattle by way of West Texas. Her play…
Core Writer
Cris Eli Blak’s work has been produced and performed around the world. He was a staff writer on the hit…
Core Writer
Lee Blessing’s plays include: A WALK IN THE WOODS (Broadway and the West End–nominations for Tony and Olivier Awards as…
Core Writer
Carlyle Brown is a writer/performer and artistic director of Carlyle Brown & Company, based in Minneapolis, which has produced The Masks of…
Core Writer
Playwright, director, producer, feminist, dog-lover. MFA Playwriting 2020 Carnegie Mellon University.
Many Voices Fellow
Vinecia Coleman is a playwright and actor based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, whose artistic aim as a writer is to tell…
Core Writer
Sandra is a theatre veteran. She recently received an honorable mention for her play Katrina and Sandy for the EstroGenius Festival, and was named a 2013 NYFA
Affiliated Writer Core Apprentice
Brian Dang (they/she), or simply “b,” is a Vietnamese/Chinese poet/playwright and teaching artist based in Providence, RI by way of…
Affiliated Writer Jerome Fellow
Michelle de Joya is an AAPI Theater Artist located in the Twin Cities. Their focus is on the AAPI experience after colonization, immigration, and assimilation.
Venturous Fellow
Madeline (Maddie) Easley is an NYC-based, Wyandotte playwright. Her work tells epic, speculative stories to provide a framework for living…
Core Apprentice
Liggera Edmonds-Allen (they/them) is a playwright from Poughkeepsie, New York. They believe in comedy and absurdity as a way to…
Affiliated Writer Core Apprentice
Harley Elias is an Indian-Iraqi Arab-Jewish playwright, librettist, and performer from New York City. His plays include Bad Dog (Miami…
Many Voices Mentorship
Kathryn Fumie is a performing artist and mother of 2 wild little boys. She has previously appeared with Theater Mu,…
McKnight Theater Artist Fellow
Based in Minnesota, Jason Hansen has held positions of music director, composer, orchestrator, and/or performer for 70 theater productions over…
Core Writer
JEFFREY HATCHER’s plays have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway and at hundreds of theaters throughout the United States and abroad. His original works include “Three Viewings,” “Compleat Female Stage Beauty,” A Picasso,” “Good ‘n Plenty” and “Scotland Road” and as well as adaptations of “The Turn of the Screw,” “The Government Inspector,” “Cousin Bette,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “Tuesdays with Morrie” (with Mitch Albom), and many more. He has written the films “Stage Beauty,” “Casanova,” “The Duchess,” and “Mr. Holmes” starring Ian McKellan. For television he has written episodes of “Columbo” and “The Mentalist.” His awards include the Rosenthal New Play Prize, the Frankel Award, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, Edgerton Grant, NEA, McKnight and Jerome Foundations, the Barrymore Award for Best New Play (“A Picasso”), L.A. Critics Circle Award for Best Adaptation (“Cousin Bette”), and the 2013 Ivey for Lifetime Achievement. He is a member of The Playwrights Center and Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild and New Dramatists. He lives in Minnesota with his wife Lisa Stevens and their son Evan.
Affiliated Writer Venturous Fellow
Gethsemane Herron is a poet-playwright from Washington, D.C. She has developed work with Ars Nova, The Fire This Time Festival,…
Core Writer
Chloé Hung is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. Her plays include Three Women of Swatow (Tarragon Theatre; Dora Award nominee…
Affiliated Writer Core Writer
JuCoby Johnson (he/him) is a New York-based playwright, actor, and screenwriter originally from Jacksonville, Florida. As an actor, he has…
Affiliated Writer Core Writer
Blossom Johnson is a Diné playwright and screenwriter. She is from the Yé’ii Dine’é Táchii’nii (Giant People) clan, and her…
Affiliated Writer Core Writer
Cristina Luzárraga is a playwright and teacher from New Jersey who, until recently, lived in Minneapolis where she was a…
McKnight Fellow in Playwriting
Rachel Lynett (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latine playwright, producer, and teaching artist. Their plays have been featured at San Diego…
Core Writer
Maya Macdonald’s plays include brunch (Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award, Finalist for O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and a Semi-Finalist for…
Many Voices Fellow
Bianca Nkwonta (she/her) is a consultant and writer originally from Eagan, Minnesota. She writes stories about the Black and African…
Core Writer
Kira Obolensky is a Mellon Foundation Playwright in residence at Ten Thousand Things Theater. She has written three plays for…
Core Writer
Charlie Oh is a playwright living in Brooklyn. His plays include LONG (Upcoming: Soho Rep, Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Award,…
Core Writer
John Olive is a widely produced (Manhattan Theatre Club, Old Globe, ACT/Seattle, South Coast Rep, Steppenwolf, the Guthrie, and many…
Core Writer
Christina Pumariega (she/her) acts and writes. Often simultaneously. Last spring she performed in the world premiere of her play ¡VOS!…
Core Writer
Alejandro is a Miami-based writer & theater maker, born of Cuban immigrants. A graduate of Juilliard, the university of hip-hop & his abuela’s kitchen counter.
Affiliated Writer Core Writer
Andrew Rosendorf’s work has been produced or developed at La Jolla, MCC, DCPA, KC Rep, Signature Theatre, Florida Stage, the…
Many Voices Fellow
A Tejana playwright, dramaturg, and photographer. My theatrical language comes from rusty dirt and technicolor skies, complex women disrupting time,…
McKnight Theater Artist Fellow
William Sturdivant is an actor, director, playwright, and educator whose artistic foundation was built in the Twin Cities. A graduate…
Affiliated Writer McKnight Fellow in Playwriting
MK Tuomanen (they/them) is the 2025 Terrence McNally Award winner for Night Science (developed at the Wilma, Playwrights’ Center, and…
Affiliated Writer Core Writer
Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at Theater Mu Loves sci-fi, horror, and comedy; Dolly Parton and Wu Tang; Golden Girls and kung fu flicks.
Jerome Fellow
Sharifa Yazmeen (she/her) is a trans Arab-American playwright and director whose work explores the intersection of Queer and Arab identities….
