Marissa Joyce Stamps is a Black, Haitian-American born and based in New York City. She is an Afrosurreal writer, director, performer, and educator. She’s the winner of the 2023 Princess Grace Playwriting Award and New Dramatists Residency. Her play, Letiche and The [Wondrous] Pursuit of Elvis, was one of three works short-listed for The 2025 Yale Drama Series Prize (selected by Pulitzer Prize-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins). Stamps is a member of EST/Youngblood, Roundabout’s Directors Group, Lucille Lortel’s Alcove, and The New Georges Jam. She was a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early-Career Writers Group, a Finalist for National Black Theatre's I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency, and a Mercury Store Lead Artist.
Select works include Letiche And The [Wondrous] Pursuit Of Elvis (Yale Drama Series Shortlist, O’Neill NPC Finalist, NBT Special Project, Bushwick Starr SRS), Being Up In Here And All The Other Businesses That Don't Concern You Or When You See A Bunch Of Black People Running, What Do You Do? (Exponential Festival, Princess Grace), You Can Tell From The Twisted Juniper (NBT Keep Soul Alive, O'Neill NPC Finalist, Chautauqua NPW), Rollback (O'Neill NPC Finalist), and Blue Fire Burns The Hottest (Exponential Festival, Orchard Project Performance Lab).
At MacDowell, Stamps worked on writing the first draft of her new play, Cadalydic Converduh, as well as revisions on her play Rollback.
Portrait by Dante Charles Crichlow
