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AZURE D. OSBORNE-LEE

Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) is a Black queer & trans Brooklyn-based writer from South of the Mason Dixon. He holds an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice (2011) from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama as well as an MA in Women’s & Gender Studies (2008) and a BA in English & Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin (2005). Azure currently teaches at New York University, The New School, and Quinnipiac University.

Still Standing Artist in Residence, recipient of Waterwell New Works Lab’s 2021 Commission, Kilroys List 2020 playwright, recipient of Parity Productions’ 2018 Annual Commission, Winner of Downtown Urban Arts Festival’s 2018 Best Play Award, and the 2015 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest. Azure’s full-length play Crooked Parts has been published in The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays. His full-length play Red Rainbow, commissioned by Waterwell, received a virtual run April 29 - May, 2021. Red Rainbow will be produced by Mt. Holyoke in March 2022. azureosbornelee.com