Azure D. Osborne-Lee

HE/They

Playwright

Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) is a multi-award-winning Black queer & trans theatre maker from south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He teaches at New York University and The New School. Azure holds an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice (2011) from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama as well as an MA in Women’s & Gender Studies (2008) and a BA in English & Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin (2005).

Still Standing Artist-in-Residence @StonehengeNYC, recipient of Waterwell New Works Lab’s 2021 Commission, Kilroys List 2020 playwright, recipient of Parity Productions’ 2018 Annual Commission, Winner of Downtown Urban Arts Festival’s 2018 Best Play Award, and the 2015 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest.

Azure’s full-length play “Crooked Parts” was published in The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays. His full-length play “Mirrors” received its world premiere, produced by Parity Productions, at Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop in spring 2020. Unfortunately, this production closed early due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Mirrors" was published by NoPassport Press in January 2023. Azure’s new play “Red Rainbow," a National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, received a production at Mt. Holyoke College in spring 2022 and at Tufts University in spring 2023.

Finalist for the 2023 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, 2022 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Theatre Viscera’s 2022 and 2020 Queer Playwright’s Contest, VanguardRep’s 2019 Summer Production; Semi-finalist for the 2021 National Playwrights Conference, the 2021 Doric Wilson Award, and the 2019 Burman New Play Award.

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