Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich

Plays include The Next Big Thing, Sister Sister, The Woman With Orange Hands, The
Body Clean, Still Life, Boy Girl Boy Girl, Double Vision, Absolute Flight: A Reality
Show With Wings, Big City, Hitting the Wall,Three a.m.,Rox-N Miss Thang, June
In White, and 4EVER. Her work has been produced or developed in New York at
Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Rattlestick, Women’s Project, Ensemble Studio
Theatre, New Georges, The New York International Fringe Festival (and extended off-
Broadway series, Fringe NYC Encore Series), and The Summer Play Festival; Regionally,
at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Trinity Rep, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,
Hangar Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Six Figures, Boston’s New Theatre, LA’s
Elephant Theatre, and Chicago’s Collaboraction Theatre. Her work has been published
by Smith and Kraus, and she has won a Hangar Theatre Playwriting Residence, Capital
Stage’s Playwrights Revolution, Bloomington Playwrights Project, and the University
of Cincinnati’s Festival of New Works. Additionally, she was a runner-up in competitions
that include the O’Neill Theatre Conference, Sundance Playwriting Lab, Princess Grace
Award, the Heideman Award, the Labyrinth Theatre Summer Intensive, Bay Area
Playwrights Festival, Phoenix Theatre’s New Works Festival, Reverie Productions Next
Generation Playwrights Contest, and the Long Beach Playhouse Festival of New Works.
She has taught playwriting at the University of Massachusetts, Brandeis University, and
Miami of Ohio. She is an affiliated artist at New Georges.