About the Playwright

MICHELLE KHOLOS BROOKS is an award-winning playwright with productions staged internationally and a Playwright-in-Residence at New YorkRep. Awards and distinctions include the Susan Glaspell Award for Htler’s Tasters, the Reva Shiner Comedy Award for Kalamazoo, co-written by Kelly Younger. Htler’s Tasters was also named Best of Fringe at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by The Stage (UK). Hostage was a finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, The Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest and a Showcase finalist for the National New Play Network. Chair received second place in the Firehouse Theatre Festival of New American Plays.

Plays have been produced and/or developed at the Skylight Theatre (World Premiere, Hostage), Centenary Stage (World Premiere, H*tler’s Tasters), Pacific Resident Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Bloomington Playwright’s Project (Rolling World Premiere, Kalamazoo), The Colony Theatre (World Premiere, Family Planning), Florida Repertory Theatre, Boston Court Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Wordsmyth Theatre, The Barrow Group, Bay Street Theatre, Venue 9 Theatre, Wings Theatre, Laurel Grove Theatre Company, Drama West, Vox Humana Theatre Ensemble, iTheatre Collaborative, New Light Theater Project, 59E59 Theaters, Olive Theatre Greenside Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Adobe Rose Theatre, Pendragon Theater, Guild Hall and Theatre Row. Brooks’ play, War Words is scheduled for a world premiere in New York in the fall of 2023.

Publications include Dramatists Play Service, Room Literary Magazine and The Daily Beast. Brooks earned a B.A. from Emerson College and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Otis College of Art and Design. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, The Playwright’s Center and Pacific Resident Theatre. In addition, she is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Playwright MIchelle Kholos Brooks will speak at the Thursday, February 9th post-show Conversation:
MICHELLE KHOLOS BROOKS – Award Winning Playwright of H*TLER’S TASTERS
SADIQA REYNOLDS – CEO of the New York-based Perception Institute, which works with national foundations on issues concerning diversity, equity and inclusion.