Playwright

Bess
Wohl

(she/her)

Bess is a playwright and filmmaker whose plays have been produced on and Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. Wohl received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for her most recent play Liberation. She will return to Broadway this spring with the Broadway debut of her play Small Mouth Sounds, starring Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd, and Sarah Paulson. Her other plays include Grand Horizons (Broadway, Tony nomination), Barcelona (West End), Camp Siegfried, Make Believe, Continuity, American Hero, Touch(ed), In, Cats Talk Back, and the original musical Pretty Filthy. Her plays have been recognized with a variety of awards; among them the GLAAD Media Award, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner, the Drama Desk, the Drama League, and the Outer Critics Circle. Bess’ film Baby Ruby premiered at TIFF in 2022 starring Noémie Merlant and Kit Harrington and was released by Magnolia Pictures. She has developed multiple TV and film projects and wrote for the Apple TV series Extrapolations. She is an alumna of Ars Nova’s Play Group, an Associate Artist with The Civilians, and the current Judith Champion Playwriting Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club. She earned her B.A. at Harvard and her M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama.