Chiori Miyagawa is a NYC-based playwright and a 2013 alumnus playwright from New Dramatists. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at renowned performance houses in NYC, and regionally. A collection of seven of her plays, Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays, is published by Seagull Books, and another collection of five plays, America Dreaming and Other Plays, is published by NoPassport Press. She is a recipient of many fellowships including a McKnight Playwriting Fellowship and a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard University. She teaches playwriting at Bard College.