CLAIRE CROWLEY (she/her) is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter from the ocean and mountains of New England. Sometimes she writes dark comedies, and sometimes she writes drama, but always her plays are centered on themes of violence and money, grief and loss and yearning, hypocrisy and intra, inter, and structural power, (dis)belonging and home and liminality, community and friendship and queerness. Her plays include THE SCOUTS OF AMERICA DON’T SELL COOKIES, B*TCH (Blue Ink Award Featured Finalist, GPTC New Play Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, Echoes Writers Program Finalist), THE CALLING or BROKE (O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semifinalist, Fringe Fest PVD) and METASTASIZED (LimeFest at The Tank, B&E Rooftop Reading Series Finalist, Woodward Residency Finalist). She was recently commissioned by the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s The Alcove New Play Development Program. Her plays have been developed with the Lortel, Great Plains Theater Commons, American Blues Theater, Primary Stages, The Tank, Playwrights Realm, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, and The Barrow Group. She is a Hunter College Playwriting MFA Candidate.

All photos on the homepage are by Christina X. Brown & Lily Crowley.
The photo to your left was taken by Claire on a dirt road in a space
between her hometown and the neighboring village.