Libby Carr (Playwright)

Libby Carr is a writer and dance artist from Houston. Their plays have been developed at Ojai Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theater, the Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwrights Workshop, and the Workshop Theater. Their plays include CALF SCRAMBLE (2024 Dr. Kerry English Artist Award winner from Ojai Playwrights Conference, 2024 O'Neill NPC finalist, Playwrights Horizons New Works Lab, Workshop Theater Lab), Roadkill (Ensemble Studio Theater’s Bloodworks), and sad girl hours (Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop, Muhlenberg College Theater Association). Libby’s a proud member of EST/Youngblood and has been an artist-in-residence with Invulnerable Nothings’ Barn Lab and MOtiVE Brooklyn. They have a BA in Playwriting and a BA in Plan II Honors from UT Austin, where they won the 2021 Trice Prize for Creative Scholarship in a Thesis.