BIPOC Playwrights

African American Playwrights

• Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie.

• Baraka, Amiri. Dutchman.

• Childress, Alice. Wedding Band , A Love Story in Black and White.

• Cleage, Pearl. Flyin’ West.

• Deavere Smith, Anna. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

• Hall, Katoria. Hurt Village.

• Harris, Aleshea. What To Send Up When It Goes Down.

• Harris, Jeremy. O. Slave Play & Daddy.

• Holter, Ike. Exit Strategy.

• Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden. Appropriate.

• Kennedy, Adrienne. Funnyhouse of a Negro.

• Lynett, Rachel. My Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson) & Abortion Road Trip.

• McRaney, Tarrell Alvin. Choir Boy.

• Nottage, Lynn. Ruined.

• O’Hara, Robert. Bootycandy.

• Parks, Suzan-Lori. Topdog/Underdog.

• Rankine, Claudia. The White Card.

• Sanchez, Sonia. The Bronx is Next (one act).

• Shange, Ntozake. for colored girls…

• Sibblies Drury, Jackie. Fairview.

• Wilson, August. Fences.

• Wolfe, George C. The Colored Museum.

Indigenous Playwrights

• Bates, Jaisy (Longhouse Huron, Algonquin). The day we were born.

• Grasl, Jason (Blackfeet). Lying with Badgers.

• Studi, Delanna (Cherokee). And So We Walked.

• Nagle, Mary Kathryn (Cherokee). Sovereignty & Manahatta.

• FastHorse, Larissa (Sicangu Lakota). The Thanksgiving Play & Average Family.

• Muskett, Jay B. 1n2ian.

• Ramirez, Vickie (Tuscarora). Smoke.

• Reinholz, Randy (Choctaw). Under a Big Sky.

• Sayet, Madeline (Mohegan). Where We Belong.

• Yellowrobe Jr., William S. (Assiniboine/Nakota). The Independence of Eddie Rose & The Star Quilter.

Latinx/Latine Playwrights

• Alfaro, Luis. Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles.

• Cortiñas, Jorge Ignacio. Tight Embrace.

• Cram, Cusi. Lucy and the Conquest.

• Cruz, Migdalia. Fur.

• Cruz, Nilo. Anna in the Tropics.

• Fornes, Maria Irene. Sarita & Fefu and Her Friends.

• Hudes, Quiara Alegria. Water by the Spoonful.

• Iraheta, Exal. They Could Give No Name & Rules of a Closed Door.

• Lynett, Rachel. My Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson) & Abortion Road Trip.

• Machado, Eduardo. Broken Eggs.

• Martinez, Rogelio. Blind Date.

• Moraga, Cherrie. Heroes and Saints.

• Romero, Elaine. Curanderas, Serpents of the Clouds & The Dalai Lama Is Not Welcome Here.

• Rivera, Jose. Cloud Tectonics.

• Sanchez Scott, Milcha. Roosters.

• Svich, Caridad. Tropic of X.

• Solis, Octavio. Lydia.

• Valdez, Luis. Zoot Suit & I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges.

• Zacarías, Karen. Native Gardens.

Asian-American Playwrights

• Cho, Julia. BFE.

• Hasu Houston, Velina. Tea.

• Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly & Yellow Face.

• Gotanda, Philip Kan. The Ballad of Yachiyo & The Wash.

• Kondo, Dorinne. Seamless.

• Kuruvilla, Sunil. Rice Boy.

• Lew, Mike. Teenage Dick.

• Malik, Rohina. Unveiled & Yasmina’s Necklace.

• Quintos, Floy. St. Louis Loves Dem Filipinos.

• Son, Diana. Stop Kiss.

• Ya-Chu Cowhig, Frances. The World of Extreme Happiness.

• Yee, Lauren. The Great Leap.

Arab-American Playwrights

• Akhtar, Ayad. Disgraced.

• Buck, Leila. American Dreams.

• Dohrn, Zayd. The Profane.

• El Guindi, Yussef. Back of the Throat & Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World.

• Khoury, Jamil. Mosque Alert.

• Mansour, Mona. Urge for Going.

• Raffo, Heather. 9 Parts of Desire & Noura.

• Shamieh, Betty. Roar.