CALAMITY WEST

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, among others. 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, and is concluding her residency with Parallax in 2026, a new play exploring community, power, and the fragile order of HOAs. She 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. Her play FEAST! will be featured in The Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Festival during the company’s centennial season, directed by Artistic Director Susan V. Booth. To learn more and subscribe to her monthly newsletter, visit calamitywest.com.