Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Bryna Turner

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017

Bryna Turner is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from Northern California. While at MacDowell, she worked on a commission from Lincoln Center about translation, environmental disaster, loss, and grief. Before her residence, her play Bull in a China Shop premiered at LCT3 (directed by Lee Sunday Evans). In addition, her work has been developed with Abingdon Theatre Company, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Ensemble Studio Theatre, LCT3, Mount Holyoke College, Rutgers University, and Rainbow Theatre Project. Other plays include: Carlo at the Wedding, Lights Over Philo, The Stand-In, and How to Separate Your Soul from Your Body (in ten easy steps!). She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group and holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Rutgers University

Studios

Calderwood

Bryna Turner worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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