James Anthony Tyler

James Anthony Tyler is the recipient of the third Annual Horton Foote 剧本创作 Award, an inaugural playwright to receive a commission from Audible, and a 2016 Theatre Masters Visionary Playwrights Award recipient. He is currently a Playwrights Center Core Writer, and most recently was the recipient of The Playwrights Center’s McKnight National Residency and Commission, a member of The Fire This Time Festival’s New Works Lab Cycle 5, and a member of Circle X Theatre Company’s Evolving Playwrights Group. 他的戏剧包括 某个老黑人 (Berkshire Playwrights Lab at St. James Place and 59E59 Theaters, and a University 音乐al Society filmed production), 我们需要的只是我们自己 (Keen Company, currently streaming on all podcast platforms) 跳那个 (Currently streaming on Audible), Artney杰克逊 (World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2018 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award), and Dolphins and Sharks (LAByrinth Theater Company and Finborough Theatre in London). He’s a 2021/2018 MacDowell Fellow, a 2021 Hermitage Artist Resident, a 2018 Djerassi Fellow, 2018-2019 Amoralists Wright Club Playwright, 2017-2018 Nashville Rep Ingram New Works Playwright, 2016-2017 Ars Nova Play Group Resident, 2016 Working Farm Playwrights Group Resident at SPACE on Ryder Farm, 2015-2016 Playwrights’ Center’s Many Voices Fellow, 2014-2015 戏剧tists Guild Fellow, and he was a member of Harlem’s Emerging Black Playwrights Group. He has a MFA in Film from Howard University and a MFA in 戏剧tic Writing from New York University. He is also a graduate of The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. 为电视, he was the Staff Writer for the OWN Network show “Cherish the Day” created by Ava DuVernay, and was most recently in the writers’ room for a new Apple + 戏剧 Series starring an Academy Award winning actress, and he’s currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU and Columbia University. Upcoming 2024 play productions include Into the Side of a Hill at Flint Repertory Theatre and 一些老黑人 伦敦人.