Bryna Turner

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Playwright

Bryna Turner is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from Northern California. Their play At the Wedding had its world premiere at LCT3 at Lincoln Center Theater. It received the Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Visions Fund Award, a NY Times Critic’s Pick, and was featured in the NYT Best of 2022 “Unforgettable Theatrical Moments” category. Their play Bull in a China Shop also premiered at LCT3 and was a NY Times Critic’s Pick. Other plays include Phases of the Moon and How to Separate Your Soul from Your Body (in ten easy steps!).

Bryna is a member of New Dramatists, a MacDowell Fellow, and an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group and WP Theater’s 2018-2020 Lab. They have taught in the MFA Playwriting Program at Rutgers University. They are currently under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and received their 2018 Emerging Artist Award. BA: Mount Holyoke College, MFA: Rutgers University. www.brynaturner.com