DGI INSTRUCTOR

EMILY DENDINGER

Their DGI Teaching History includes Writing Historical Plays.

EMILY DENDINGER is a New York–based writer by way of Virginia. Her plays include Little House in the Big City (2017 NNPN Showcase Finalist), Pocketful of Sand (2015 Alliance/Kendeda finalist), #GodHatesYou (2020 Primary Stage Festival Semi-Finalist) and The Grand Illusion Show (2020 Bay Area Theatre Festival Semi-Finalist, 2020 Kitchen Dog New Play Festival Finalist). She is a two-time winner of Theater Masters and has been a finalist for the City Theatre National Award, Emerald Prize, Playwright’s Center Core Apprentice and the Heideman Award. Her adaptation of A Doll’s House (commissioned by The Acting Company) appeared on the 2020 Kilroys’ List. 

Dendinger has worked around the country with companies including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Route 66, collective unconscious,The Lark, Sideshow Theatre, The Alliance, NNPN, Curious Theatre Company, NJ Rep, Orlando Shakes, Ashland New Play Festival and TimeLine Theatre. Her work has been developed at The Perry Mansfield Festival of New Work and Tofte Lake Residency. She was the 2015-16 NNPN Playwright-in-Residence with Curious Theatre Company and is an alumni member of TimeLine’s Writers Collective and an NNPN affiliate artist. Dendinger is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Playwright’s Workshop and teaches at Rutgers University.