Eleanor Burgess

Eleanor is thrilled to be the recipient of the 2016 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award. Previous plays have been produced by the Last Act Theatre Company, Centenary Stage Company, and the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival, and developed at the Huntington Theatre, the Kennedy Center/NNPN M.F.A. Playwrights Workshop, Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Luna Stage. She has been a playwriting fellow at the Huntington Theatre Company, a recipient of an EST/Sloan rewrite commission and a member of the writers’ group at the Arcola Theatre in London. Originally from Brookline, Mass., she studied history at Yale College and playwriting at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. Love and gratitude to Nick.