Elise Wien makes work 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 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, Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting; Finalist, Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers), and Craters (Production, Smith College; Reading, Corkscrew Theater Festival). Co-written musicals include Depresh Mode (Evolution Festival) and GUANOMANIA! (EST/Sloan commission).

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

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