Topher Payne (playwright)

Topher Payne is an unapologetic eavesdropper and collector of stories who makes his home in Atlanta. His works for the stage include Swell Party, The Only Light in Reno, Above the Fold (Metro Atlanta Theatre Award, Best Original Work & Best Play of the Year), Angry Fags (Gene-Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award), Evelyn in Purgatory (Essential Theatre Playwriting Award), and Perfect Arrangement (American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award). He has been named Atlanta’s Best Playwright by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing, and The Sunday Paper, and was featured as one of “Ten Playwrights You Should Know” by Southern Theatre Magazine. His column for The Georgia Voice, Domestically Disturbed, won the 2012 National Newspaper Association award for Best Humor Column. He is an artistic associate with Flying Carpet Theatre in New York, and The Process Theatre in Atlanta. His audiobook, Funny Story: The Incomplete Works of Topher Payne, is available on iTunes, Audible, and Amazon. Topher and his beagle, Daisy, were both born in Mississippi, but they didn’t fit in there.