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RECENT ACCOLADES
Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Finalist, 2023.
Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist, 2023
Mark Twain Prize in Comic Playwriting, 2022 (!!!!!)
Yes And Laughter Lab Finalist, 2022.
Portland Civic Theatre Guild's New Play Award Finalist, 2022.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
ACTS OF CREATION
@ New Stage Theater, directed by Lindsey Neville, May 2023
AFTER THIS EPISODE
@ Springfield High School, directed by Jill Plum, May 2023
STILL HARVEY STILL
@ 21Ten Theatre, directed by Ted Rooney, May 2023 (reading)
ACTS OF CREATION
@ Vivid Stage, directed by Laura Ekstrand, May 2023 (reading)
STILL HARVEY STILL
@Desert Island Studio, October 2023 (reading)
AFTER THIS EPISODE
@ Chagrin Falls Academy for the Performing Arts, directed by Dan Hendrock, November 2023
PUBLICATIONS
HOW YOU GET BURNED, featured in Go Play Outside, published by Applause Books. 2022.
A TEMPORARY FUNERAL FOR DARREN MCDUFFY, featured in Theater Masters' Take Ten: Volume 6, published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals, 2021
BIO
Brianna Barrett is a writer, performer and lover of surrealist, social-commentary comedy. Fascinated with identity crises, double lives, mortality, grief, queer stuff, weird stuff, dick jokes with heart, and the forgotten history of stuff that happened surprisingly-not-that-long-ago, Barrett received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize in Comic Playwriting, was twice-voted Portland’s Best Storyteller in Willamette Week and has short plays published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals and Applause Books. This Portland-born weirdo beat cancer, teaches writing, and has an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA.
