About

Mallory Jane Weiss is a Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based, queer, woman playwright, whose work centers around female friendship, time, and finding the mythical inside the mundane.

 Select plays include Big Black Sunhats (Great Plains Theatre Conference 2023; The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2022; Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission finalist 2020), Anaphora (The O’Neill NPC finalist 2024; Premiere Play Festival semi-finalist 2024), LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO (The O’Neill NPC finalist 2023; Clubbed Thumb reading 2022), The Page Turners (Clauder Competition Gold Prize 2023; Princess Grace Award semi-finalist 2022; The O’Neill NPC finalist 2021), Pony Up (Broadway Play Publishing 2023; Princess Grace Award Finalist 2019), Dave and Julia are stuck in a tree (Playing on Air’s James Stevenson Prize 2020), and DRAWBRIDGE (Concord Theatricals 2024; Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival 2023).

 Mallory is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow and has worked with Clubbed Thumb, Portland Stage Company, The Sharon Playhouse, The COOP, Gingold Theatrical Group, and Fresh Ground Pepper.

 She is also a screenwriter and a fiction writer. Mallory teaches a series writing workshops called, "... the damn thing," which center around curating a sustainable artistic practice at every stage of creation. She has her B.A. in English from Harvard University and her M.F.A. in Playwriting from The New School.