Caity-Shea Violette

Caity-Shea Violette (she/her) is a playwright and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, The Clauder Competition Gold Prize, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award, Susan Glaspell Playwriting Festival National Award, and National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Award. Her plays include Rx Machina, Reap The Grove, Slow Jam, Credible, Gaslight Supernova, Target Behavior, and others. Her work has been developed or presented at Portland Stage, Roundabout Theatre Company, The New Harmony Project, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and more. She has been a finalist for the Judith Royer Playwriting Excellence Award and Risk Theatre’s Modern Tragedy Competition, as well as a semifinalist for The Lark’s Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, SPACE at Ryder Farm Creative Residency, and the Future of Playwriting Prize. Caity-Shea has an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University and a BFA in Acting from University of Minnesota, Duluth.