Dianne Nora

Dianne Nora(she/her) is a writer, dramaturg, and theatre artist focused on new play development. She is thrilled to be returning to A Red Orchid Theatre, where she has previously worked as a playwright (Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin) and dramaturg (The Moors). An abbreviated version of her play Monica: This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky, directed by Tova Wolff, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe, where The Spectator listed it among the “Best of the Fringe.“ Her play for young audiences, Journey Around My Bedroom, was co-created with Jaclyn Biskup and produced at New Ohio Theatre in 2020, and recommended by The New York Times. She has assisted her mentor, Tracy Letts, on seven productions and workshops, at Steppenwolf Theatre and on Broadway. She’s a winner of Inkwell Theater’s Lerner Fellowship and Playhouse on the Square’s New Works at the Works Playwriting Competition, and a recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement grant. She was selected for Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Words Cubed program, and she was a member of Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit. She was a runner-up for the Alley Theatre’s Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award; a finalist for The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Ingram New Works Lab at Nashville Rep, and Rough Magic Theatre’s SEEDS program; and a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (twice), and the Princess Grace Award for playwriting. She’s a headline and features contributor at The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, and her humor writing has also appeared on Funny Or Die and The Hard Times, where she was previously Head Writer of Breaking News. BA: New York University; MPhil: Trinity College Dublin; MFA: Columbia University School of the Arts.