Lenelle Moise

Lenelle Moïse is a screenwriter, poet, and playwright. Her romantic comedy K-I-S-S-I-N-G won the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script. The play's world premiere, co-produced by the Huntington Theatre and the Front Porch Arts Collective, won eight Elliot Norton Awards overall.

Moïse's Off-Broadway credits include Expatriate (Culture Project). She has written short plays for Baltimore Center Stage's My America series and The New Black Fest's Untamed. Her other full-length plays include Purple (Kitchen Theatre Company) and Merit (a Ruby Prize winner, featured on the Kilroys List).

Moïse was the Spring 2018 Playwright-in-Residence at Ithaca College, the 2017 Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, a 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing, and a Huntington Playwriting Fellow.

Her book of poems, Haiti Glass (City Lights Books), was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award winner.