elle thoni (they/them) is a xenogender playwright and public artist from Dakota land in Minneapolis. In search of wildness amidst this Great Unraveling, they write plays about queer shapeshifters, emergent ecologies, and unlikely kinship. Their plays include From the Ground Up (Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, Planet Earth Playwriting Award, Earth Matters Onstage Finalist),  Monstrous, or, A Short Narrative on An Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits (second place Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Jane Chambers Honorable Mention) and Queen B: A New Work of Honeybee Futurism (Franconia Sculpture Park, MSAB Arts Tour). They are an Alfred P. Sloan-awarded screenwriter, an affiliated writer with The Playwrights’ Center, The New Harmony Project, and Tofte Lake Center, and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. They keep bees, and vice versa. M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon