Bryna Turner is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from Northern California. Her work has been developed with Abingdon Theatre Company, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Ensemble Studio Theatre, LCT3, Mount Holyoke College, Rutgers University, and Rainbow Theatre Project. Plays include: Carlo at the Wedding, Lights Over Philo, The Stand-In, and How to Separate Your Soul from Your Body (in ten easy steps!). She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group and holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Rutgers University
While at MacDowell, she worked on a commission from Lincoln Center about translation, environmental disaster, loss, and grief. Before her residence, her play Bull in a China Shop premiered at LCT3 (directed by Lee Sunday Evans).
