Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. Her plays have been produced and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, WPLab, Portland Center Stage, Jungle Theater, Studio Theatre, and KC Rep, among other places, and her radio plays and podcasts have been produced by Audible/Fresh Produce Media, United Artists, Woolly Mammoth, and Playing On Air. She’s held commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Portland Center Stage, and is an alumna of EST/Youngblood, the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. Awards include the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, the Dramatists Guild Foundation Comedic Playwriting Prize, recognition on the Kilroys List, and a Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellowship. Her writing life has been supported by fellowships to MacDowell and Ucross, and scholarships to Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers Conference, where she teaches on the playwriting faculty. She’s a company member with Colt Coeur, and recent acting credits include Have You Met Jane Goodall & Her Mother? (EST), A Woman Among Women (Bushwick Starr/New Georges), Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb), and The Good John Proctor (Bedlam Theatre).