Chisa Hutchinson (BA Vassar College; MFA NYU - Tisch School of the Arts) is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter. She is currently working mercenary-style on two film projects, one for A&E/Lifetime and the another spearheaded by Simon Cowell for Sony. And while she’s flexing new muscles, she figured she may as well accept a commission from Audible to write a radio play. Up to this point, Chisa’s happily presented her plays, which include Dirt Rich, She Like Girls,This Is Not The Play, Sex On Sunday, Tunde’s Trumpet, The Subject, Somebody’s Daughter, Alondra Was Here, Surely Goodness And Mercy, From The Author Of, Amerikin, and Dead & Breathing, at such venues as the Lark Theater, SummerStage, Atlantic Theater Company, Mad Dog Theater Company, Rattlestick Theater, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, the National Black Theatre, Writers’ Theatre of New Jersey, Delaware REP, Second Stage Theater, and Arch 468 in London. She has been a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a Lark Fellow, a Resident at Second Stage Theater, a Humanitas Fellow, a New York NeoFuturist, and a staff writer for the Blue Man Group. Chisa has won a GLAAD Award, a Lilly Award, a New York Innovative Theatre Award, the Paul Green Award, a Helen Merrill Award, the Lanford Wilson Award, and has been a finalist for the highly coveted PoNY Fellowship. Currently, in addition to being a Fellow at Primary Stages and a proud fifth-year member of New Dramatists, Chisa is gearing up for two NYC theater productions and settling down to write a play commissioned by South Coast Rep. To learn more, visit www.chisahutchinson.com.
Chisa Hutchinson