Bella Poynton (she/her) (On Rooftops and Rowboats) is a playwright, director, actor, and theater scholar. Her creative work has been published with Samuel French at Concord Theatricals and can be seen in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, The Weirdest Plays of 2020, WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters, and Clockhouse. Her scholarly work has been published in Comparative Drama, Theatre/Practice, Texas Theatre Journal, Global Performance Studies, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her plays have been produced and developed at Alleyway Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, 3rd Act Theatre Company, Oklahoma City University, Antaeus Theatre Company, Otherworld Theatre, MadLab Theatre, Theatre Viscera, and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, and Post-Industrial Productions, among many others. Poynton is a co-chair of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid America Theatre Conference, and the director of the Playwrights Wing at First Look Buffalo Theatre Company. Upcoming projects: The AI at Delphi (First Look Buffalo), Prelude to a Kiss (Director, Bellissima), Mergers & Integrations at Buffalo Quickies (Alleyway), and 20,000 Leagues (Otherworld Theatre), MFA, Iowa Playwrights Workshop; PhD, SUNY Buffalo.
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