Riley Elton McCarthy (they/them) is a nonbinary playwright, performer, producer and screenwriter spawned in Georgia, AKA the land where peaches grow freely and fiddle-playing devils roam, transplant of North Carolina, and current resident plant parent of Brooklyn. Their plays include Ivories, The Lesbian Play, Southern Bedfellows, and Sharon and Melina, or, a Fantastical Farce Founded in Semi-Falsities. Residencies include CPH HOTMeat, Elephant Room Productions EERS, Scawwy Howwow Theatre Works-in-Progress, The Bechdel Group Readings Series, and Art House Productions’ INKubator New Play Development program. Their work has subsequently been staged at The Tank, CPH Queer Theatre Festival, Bøssehuset, Folketeatret, Kulturhuset Indre By, House of International Theatre, Student Theatre at Marymount, Marymount Manhattan College, and The Hudson Guild Theater. They are a proud member of The Dramatists Guild and Ring of Keys. BA: Marymount Manhattan College.
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