Artist Bio

(Bio as of June 2019)

Dianne Nora is a playwright, dramaturg, theater scholar and comedy writer who works in Chicago, Brooklyn and Dublin, Ireland. Her full-length plays include Julie (25F), Western Country, In Rooms Such as These, Everybody’s Legs, Wasps, Ye That Dwell in Dust, Prodigal and Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky. She recently assisted her mentor Tracy Letts in rehearsals for the world premiere of his play The Minutes, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. She is currently co-writing a parody of the Bible with Scott Dikkers, founding editor of The Onion. BA: NYU; MPhil: Trinity College Dublin; MFA: Columbia University School of the Arts.