Brynn H.

Brynn Hambley (she/they) is a queer and disabled playwright, theatre artist, devising artist, theatre educator, podcast host, and freelance writer based in Wilmington, North Carolina. She earned her BA in Theatre Arts from Gettysburg College and her MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work explores loneliness, disability, queerness, and the very human ability to have hope despite it all. In the past, she was a Semi-Finalist for the O'Neill National Playwright's Conference 2024 (PIETA); Finalist for Experimental Heals with Experimental Bitch NYC (Antidotal); Resident Artist with First Kiss Theatre (PIETA); Featured Artist for Theatre Viscera, 2022 (The Eleventh Star);  and a Finalist for The Independent International Award for Improper Dramaturgy, 2019/2020 (Antidotal). Brynn's plays have been developed with many companies including: The Tank (Antidotal); The Brick (Antidotal); New Jersey Play Lab; First Kiss Theatre Company (Pieta); NYC Summerfest (Retail Therapy); Cut Edge Collective (The Eleventh Star ; Somebody Was Here); Soundscape Theater (Pumpkin Dreams); Vibrating Body (Antidotal); Waterhouse Collective (Antidotal); Loud Colorful Filth (Paradise Lost and Found); Sarah Lawrence College (Paradise Lost and Found); and the Graduate New Play Development Reading Series (Runaway Reflections). Her poetry, essays, and short plays have been published in The Mercury; Best Emerging Poets in Pennsylvania; Best Emerging Poets in America; The Perch (It is July); and The Coachella Review (Somebody Was Here). Currently, she is working on a play about a women's book club becoming possessed by the Bacchae (and revenge); working diligently as a Marketing and Engagement Associate for The Wilson Center Theater as well as a member of First Kiss Theatre's Board of Directors as the Director of Community Engagement. Alumnus of Cut Edge Collective; Member of Storyteller's Studio; Former Teaching Artist at NJPAC; Member of The Dramatists Guild.