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Calamity West

A woman with straight brown hair, blunt bangs, and large clear-framed glasses looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression.

(Bio as of November 2025)

Calamity West is an award-winning playwright and educator whose work has been developed and produced nationally at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Public, Roundabout Underground, the Goodman Theatre, and Jackalope Theatre Company – to name a few. From 2022 to 2026 she is in residency at Primary Stages through the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, where she has written FEAST! and Sgt. Hank Cole’s Drama Club of Algona. She is concluding her residency with Parallax (2026), a new play exploring community, power, and the fragile order of HOAs. West teaches at the University of Chicago, the Einhorn School of Performing Arts, Webster University, and through the Jackalope Playwrights Lab, which she founded in 2018. Visit calamitywest.com to learn more and subscribe to her monthly newsletter.