Playwright

Beth
Hyland

(she/her)

Beth Hyland is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays and musicals, which include SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA, Fires, Ohio, Baby Shower Katie, Anna K., Cancelina, Seagulls, and Clearing, have been produced and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Round House Theatre, The Hearth, and others. Her play SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA won the 2025 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and the 2024 Weissberger Prize; her play Fires, Ohio won the 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award and will receive its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in March. She currently holds commissions with Geffen Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She is a two-time recipient 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, and the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award. M.F.A. UC San Diego. Representation: Jamie Kaye-Phillips, Paradigm Talent Agency; Benjamin Blake and Anthony Ippolito, Heroes and Villains Entertainment. www.bethhyland.com

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