Adrienne Dawes

Biography

Adrienne Dawes(she/her/hers) is an Afro-Latina writer, producer, and teaching artist originally from Austin, TX. Her plays include This Bitch, Hairy & Sherri, Teen Dad, and more. She received her bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and studied sketch and improv with The Second City in Chicago, IL. Adrienne has been a resident artist with Colt Coeur, an Alice Judson Hayes Fellow (Ragdale Foundation), a MAPFund, NEA, and NALAC Fund for the Arts grantee (for her play Casta), and a selected playwright in the 2018 Fornés Playwriting Workshop. Adrienne’s play Am I White won the David Mark Cohen New Play Award from the Austin Critics Table and an award for Outstanding Original Script by the B. Iden Payne Awards. Her work is published by Vintage Books, TRW Plays, Playscripts, Heartland Plays, Heuer Publishing, and Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. Adrienne’s full-length plays have been produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater (Austin, TX), Sacred Fools (Los Angeles, CA), and American Theatre Company (Tulsa, OK). She has developed new work with Teatro Vivo, Salt Lake Acting Company, The Workshop Theater, Queen City New Play Initiative, the Fire This Time Festival, Stages Repertory Theatre, Teatro Milagro, National Black Theatre, and English Theatre Berlin. Adrienne is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ScriptWorks, and a company member of Salvage Vanguard Theater. Website: www.adriennedawes.com Twitter:

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• Heritage, Her-i-tage, and Hair-i-tage

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