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 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Visions Award, a NY Times Critic’s Pick, and was featured in the NYT Best of 2022 “Unforgettable Theatrical Moments” category. The play was developed in part by TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Upcoming production: Studio Theatre in DC.

Their play Bull in a China Shop also premiered at LCT3 at Lincoln Center Theater before going on to be produced and presented around the world. Notable productions include: About Face; Aurora; Diversionary Theatre; and a staged reading at the National Theatre in London directed by Phyllida Lloyd, starring Fiona Shaw and Jade Anouka.

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.