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.

Dads experience enlightenment in YouTube Kabbalah seminars, Interns fall in love with robot replicas of their ex-girlfriends, and Teens come to a sense of political consciousness by writing Barack Obama fan fiction.

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.