Ned Dougherty is a playwright, screenwriter, and poet living in Appalachia. His plays have been featured in theatre festivals from Dublin to Albuquerque and independently produced in his previous home of Taos, New Mexico. Two of his plays have been showcased in the NEWvember Festival of New Plays in Ireland (2019, 2022). He is under commission from the Greenbrier Valley Theatre a musical for young audiences and his writing has been supported by ForgeNYC, SOMOS, the Taos Center for the Arts and Josh Wilder’s Playwrights Workshop. He is a member of the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts and a former faculty member for the Taos Writers Conference. He was named the New Mexico Charter School Teacher of the Year in 2015, was a two-time Fund for Teachers Fellows and has presented at numerous national education conferences with students showcasing their own work. He is currently teaching at-risk high school youth in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. MFA: Augsburg University, 2019.