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WhoTHIS?
Brianna Barrett's writing explores identity, double lives, mortality, and the forgotten history of stuff that happened surprisingly-not-that-long-ago. A recipient of the Theater Masters’ Visionary Award, Aspen Ideas Festival Fellowship and twice named Portland’s Best Storyteller by Willamette Week, this Portland-born writer's plays have been developed with Playwrights Union, LineStorm Playwrights, Central Works, Bag & Baggage Productions, Theater 33, Yes And Laughter Lab, and more. Full-length works include Acts of Creation (Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize), Florence Fane in San Francisco (O’Neill finalist), Still Harvey Still (2025 Oregon Book Award finalist), 36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations (George Burns and Gracie Allen Fellowship in Comedy), The Lucky Break (New Musical Project Finalist, CITSTS Emerging Writers Residency Top 10) and After This Episode (Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist), and selected short plays are published by Concord Theatricals and Applause Books. Barrett holds an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA.
