Playwright

Beth
Hyland

(she/her)

Beth Hyland is a playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Her play SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA won the 2024 Weissberger Prize and will receive its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Jo Bonney; her play Fires, Ohio won the 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Award and will receive its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre, directed by Marissa Wolf. Her plays and musicals, which include Baby Shower Katie, Anna K., Cancelina, Fat Forever, Killed a Man (Joking), Seagulls, and Clearing, have been produced and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, Round House Theatre, The Hearth, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Cygnet Theatre, Provincetown Theater, First Floor Theater, The Sound, and others. She currently holds commissions with Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and has projects in development with No Pool Productions and Scenario Two. She is a two-time winner of The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting and has been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, the Venturous Playwright Fellowship, and the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award. B.A. Kenyon College, M.F.A. UCSD. Representation: Jamie Kaye-Phillips, Paradigm Talent Agenct; Benjamin Blake and Anthony Ippolito, Heroes and Villains Entertainment. www.bethhyland.com

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