ELISE WIEN is a writer who works in the genre of tender absurdism—creating worlds that reflect the cruel and chaotic nature of our own, and characters who must rely on each other for connection and support to survive them.
Her plays include OTP (Academic Production, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), [cowboy face] (Winner, Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting; Finalist, Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers), Craters, or the making of the making of the moon landing (Academic Production, Smith College; Reading, Corkscrew Theater Festival), and cara has a hole in her head (Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival). She has worked with Undiscovered Countries, The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, Dixon Place, The Tank, American Lore Theater, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. She is a recent graduate of Boston University’s Playwriting MFA program.