Hello! I’m Elise Wien, a New York-based writer making work that’s dark, comedic, and always a little tender. Featuring: Dads who experience enlightenment in YouTube Kabbalah seminars, Interns who fall in love with robot replicas of their ex-girlfriends, and Teens who write Barack Obama fan fiction.

Plays include OBLAST (Residency, the cell theatre), Osher & the Infinite Curtain (Jewish Plays Project), OTP (Finalist, O’Neill NPC), [cowboy face] (Winner, KCACTF Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting; Finalist, Leah Ryan FEWW), and Craters (Production, Smith College; Reading, Corkscrew Theater Festival). Co-written musicals include Depresh Mode (Evolution Festival) and GUANOMANIA! (EST/Sloan commission).

I have developed work with The Tank, The Workshop Theater, Dixon Place, The Road Theatre Company, American Lore Theater, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. I am a New Georges Affiliated Artist and a graduate of Boston University’s Playwriting MFA program.

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

Lately:

May 2025 | Osher & the Infinite Curtain had a reading as part of MAD Company’s New Perspectives Festival
February 2025 | I developed a new piece as part of First Kiss Theatre’s Feblab Cohort
September 2024 | Depresh Mode had a presentation at the Evolution Festival at the Center at West Park
July 2024 | I developed OBLAST as an artist-in-residence at the cell theatre