Donnetta Lavinia Grays

(Playwright & “Man”),  raised in Columbia, South Carolina, is a Brooklyn-based playwright and actor. Her plays include Last Night and the Night Before, Laid to Rest, The Review or How to Eat Your Opposition (2018 WP Pipeline Festival, 2013 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist) The New Normal, and The Cowboy Is Dying. Donnetta was a 2018 Space on Ryder Farm Working Farm Resident Playwright and a 2016-2018 WP Playwrights Lab member. She is the inaugural recipient of the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. Her work has been supported by The Public Theater, New Harmony Project, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Labyrinth Theater Company, New York Theater Workshop, and more. Donnetta is also a staff writer on the television show “Manhunt: Lonewolf”. Acting credits include Broadway’s In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and Well, Twelfth Night (The Public Theater/Mobile Unit), O, Earth (The Foundry Theatre), and Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons and Clubbed Thumb), plus many regional theater and film/TV roles.