Justice Hehir
she/her/hers
Newark, NJ
Playwright, Vegan, Garden Variety Irish/Italian, Weird Cousin
Biography

Justice Hehir is a playwright whose work explores sexuality, feminism, and the formation and rupture of human bonds. She is a company member of Colt Coeur and is the recipient of a 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She is currently commissioned by George Street Playhouse and is an alumna of the 2020 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group. Other recent projects include “true believer”, published this year by Table Work Press, and “freeplay”, a play about a women-owned dildo company under development through an EST/Sloan Project commission. She graduated from Hunter College in 2018 with an MFA in Playwriting (under the tutelage of Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) and from Rutgers University in 2016 with a BA in Women’s and Gender Studies and English. Her thesis play, fury, or the frat play (directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt) was awarded the Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize. She lives in Newark, NJ.

Agent Information

Derek Zasky, WME

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