Cusi Cram

Cusi Cram is a Bolivian- American playwright, screenwriter, director, performer, educator, and advocate for underrepresented writers in the arts. Her plays have been produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company, Primary Stages, the Denver Center, South Coast Repertory’s Hispanic Playwrights Project, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, and New Georges. Her work has been supported by the O’Neill Theater Center, the Sloan Foundation, the Bogliasco, Camargo and Ford Foundations, MacDowell, The Church, and the Venturous and Stillpoint Funds. She spent many years writing for WGBH’s Arthur, earning three Emmy nominations, and directed her first feature film, Wild & Precious, through AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, where it received the Adrienne Shelly and Nancy Malone Awards. Most recently, she directed a dystopian feminist sci-fi short film in the deep woods of the Catskills produced by the Moonshot Initiative. She is the Associate Chair of the Dramatic Writing Program at Tisch School of the Arts. She is on the board of the Leah Ryan Fund and is a proud member of LAByrinth Theater Company. Look out for her latest play, Blanca & Ines which is part of Intar’s 60th season.