Brittany
Fisher
Playwright | Poet

Bio
Brittany is a recent graduate of Juilliard's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. Her play How to Bruise Gracefully won the 2021 Kennedy Center Lorraine Hansberry Award and was recognized by the Rosa Parks Award and Paula Vogel Award. She was a 2018-19 and 2019-20 Pipeline New Works Playwriting Fellow, and her work has been featured in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference (2021), recognized by the O'Neill NPC, the Alliance Theatre's Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, and produced by Cadence Theatre Company (forthcoming 2023). She received her B.A. from James Madison University, where she majored in Journalism with a Creative Writing minor. Her poetry has been featured in various publications, including Virginia’s Best Emerging Poets (Z Publishing) and Kinfolks: a journal of black expression. She continues to strive to make an impact in the world through storytelling rooted in advocacy.
Brittany is repped by WME and Grandview LA.