D.W. Gregory
Playwright
Program:
Annual Commission
National Showcase of New Plays
Rolling World Premiere
D.W. Gregory is an award-winning writer whose plays frequently explore political issues through a personal lens and with a comedic twist. The New York Times called her “a playwright with a talent to enlighten and provoke” for her most produced work, RADIUM GIRLS, about the famous case of industrial poisoning. Radium Girls has received more than 1,800 productions in the United States and abroad. Other plays include MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN, a National New Play Network rolling world premiere (Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shadowland Stages, New Jersey Rep); MOLUMBY’S MILLION (Iron Age Theatre), nominated for a Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play by Philadelphia Theatre Alliance; A THING OF BEAUTY, winner of the Southeastern Theatre Conference’s 2023 Charles Getchell New Play Award; THE GOOD DAUGHTER and OCTOBER 1962 (New Jersey Rep); and a new musical, THE YELLOW STOCKING PLAY, with composer Steven M. Alper and lyricist Sarah Knapp, which won awards for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical in CreateTheater’s 2023 New Works Festival. Gregory’s plays have been developed through the support of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE), NNPN, the Playwrights’ Center, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the HBMG Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and New York University’s New Plays for Young Audiences. A member of the Dramatists’ Guild, Gregory is an affiliated writer with The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and an affiliated artist with NNPN. Gregory also writes for youth theatre (SALVATION ROAD, PENNY CANDY) and makes occasional appearances as a teaching artist. For six years in a row, Dramatics Magazine named RADIUM GIRLS among the 10 Most Produced Plays in American High School Theatre.