Chisa Hutchinson (B.A. Vassar College; M.F.A NYU – TSoA) is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter. Her first radio drama, “Proof of Love,” was presented by Audible and New York Theatre Workshop at the Minetta Lane Theater in NYC and can be found on Audible’s digital platform (with a 4.6 rating and everything, too, so that’s pretty cool) and her next radio play, “Redeemed,” was commissioned by Dorset Theatre and is still featured on the Dorset website for listening (hint-hint). Chisa’s happily presented her other plays, which include “Dirt Rich,” “She Like Girls,” “This Is Not The Play,” “Sex On Sunday,” “Tunde’s Trumpet,” “The Subject,” “Somebody’s Daughter,” “Alondra Was Here,” “Surely Goodness And Mercy,” “From The Author Of, Whitelisted” and “Dead & Breathing” at such venues as the Lark Theater, SummerStage, Atlantic Theater Company, Rattlestick Theater, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, the National Black Theatre, Delaware REP, Second Stage Theater, Keen Company, and Arch 468 in London. She has been a Humanitas Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a Lark Fellow, Resident at Second Stage Theater and New Dramatists, a New York NeoFuturist, and a staff writer for the Blue Man Group. Here are some of her awards and whatnot: a GLAAD Award, a Lilly Award, a New York Innovative Theatre Award, the Paul Green Award, a Helen Merrill Award, the Lanford Wilson Award. Currently, Chisa is wondering when, if ever, the adaptation of Oliver Twist that she worked on for Disney and Ice Cube will go into production, having been pandemically postponed. Meanwhile, she’s just wrapped production on a new TV series she helped write for Showtime (“Three Women”), and is developing another with producers Karamo Brown (“Queer Eye”) and Stephanie Allain (“Hustle & Flow,” “Dear White People”). Her first original feature, “The Subject,” an indie about a white documentarian dealing with the moral fallout from exploiting the death of a black teen, is available on various VOD platforms after a successful film festival circuit during which it won over 30 prizes.
