Shayan Lotfi is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and was the Tow Playwright-in-Residence at the Atlantic Theater, where his play What Became of Us premiered. He is the recipient of the Horton Foote Award from the Dramatists Guild, a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, and is currently under commission from the Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater and South Coast Repertory. He is an alum of The Working Farm Writers’ Group at SPACE on Ryder Farm and Page 73’s I-73 Writers Group. In addition to writing, he also works as an urban planning consultant.
While at MacDowell in 2025, he worked on a play exploring the in-between spaces migrants inhabit when transitioning from home to destination, and a screenplay exploring what ethnic minority communities owe each other in times of crisis.
