Tyler Rivenbark

Born and raised in North Carolina, Tyler Rivenbark received his MFA in Playwriting from the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY. Select works include Soldier/Woman (New Ohio, NYC), hands (The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn), Silence (Dixon Place, NYC; Artists' Bloc, Washington, DC). He has received a Poetry Society of America commission to adapt Rita Dove's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poems, Thomas and Beulah. He was a writer-in-residence at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, Mission to (dit)Mars, and the Orchard Project's Episodic Lab. He is winner of the Bigfoot Script Challenge. He has been named a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, DVRF's Playwright Program, and University of Central Florida's Pegasus PlayLab; a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, SPACE on Ryder Farm's Working Farm, and American Shakespeare Center's New Contemporaries; and a quarter-finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship.