Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. Some of her plays are Redwood (Kilroys List 2017 & 2020), The Joy of Painting, The Credibility Gap (fka: Happy Happy Joy Joy), Ball Change, and The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. Her plays have been produced or developed by Portland Center Stage, Jungle Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, WP Lab, Ars Nova, Studio Theatre, KCRep, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and other places, and she has written audio plays and scripted podcasts for United Artists, Fresh Produce/Audible, Playing On Air, and the Telephonic Literary Union/Woolly Mammoth. An alumna of EST/Youngblood and the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, Brittany's currently a member of the Dorothy Streslin New American Playwrights group with Primary Stages. Awards include the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, the Dramatists Guild Foundation Comedic Playwriting Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, and the Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellowship via the (late) Lark. Her work has been published in the Kilroys Anthology, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Epiphany, and Kenyon Review, among other places, and she currently holds commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Portland Center Stage, and Clubbed Thumb, where she works in the literary department. Her prose writing has been supported by scholarships to Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers Conference, where she is currently on playwriting faculty.
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