Elise Wien is a playwright who works in the genre of tender absurdism – building worlds that reflect the cruel and chaotic nature of our own, with characters who must rely on each other for connection and support to survive them.

Her plays include OBLAST (Residency, the cell theatre), Osher & the Infinite Curtain (Finalist, Jewish Plays Project), OTP (Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), [cowboy face] (Winner, Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting; Finalist, Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers), and Craters, or the making of the making of the moon landing (Production, Smith College; Reading, Corkscrew Theater Festival).

She has developed plays with The Workshop Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Road Theatre Company, The Tank, American Lore Theater, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. She is a recent graduate of Boston University’s Playwriting MFA program.

You can find her resume here and her New Play Exchange profile here.