CAITY-SHEA VIOLETTE is a national award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work explores invisible disabilities, sexuality, and learning how to belong to yourself. She is a winner of the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, The Clauder Competition Gold Prize, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award, Susan Glaspell Playwriting Festival National Award, and National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Award. Her plays include Rx Machina, Reap The Grove, Slow Jam, Credible, Gaslight Supernova, Target Behavior, and others. Her work has been developed or presented at Roundabout Theatre Company, Portland Stage, The New Harmony Project, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and more. She has been a finalist for the Judith Royer Playwriting Excellence Award, Screencraft Stage Play Competition, and Risk Theatre’s Modern Tragedy Competition, as well as a semifinalist for The Lark’s Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, SPACE at Ryder Farm Creative Residency, and the Future of Playwriting Prize. She is a writer-in-residence in Echo Theatre Company’s 2021-2022 Los Angeles Young Playwrights. Originally from the Midwest, Caity-Shea has a BFA in Acting from University of Minnesota, Duluth and an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University.