Cayenne Douglass

Biography

CAYENNE DOUGLASS has had work developed and/or produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Theatre Masters, Fresh Ink Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre Company, Dixon Place, The Tank, Clutch Productions, City Theatre Miami, FEAST: A Performance Series, and Manhattan Repertory Theatre. Cayenne has participated in The First Stage Residency through The Drama League, The Barn Arts Residency, and The Emerging Artists Residency at Tofte Lake. She is an alumnus of The Living Room Theatre Lab, New Perspectives Women’s Work Lab, The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Book Writing Basics, Company One Theatre’s Volt Lab, and The Exquisite Corpse Company Writers Lab. Currently she’s participating in The Workshop Theatre’s Writing Intensive 2022, BMI Composer/Lyricists Workshop, and Letter of Marque Theatre’s Ensemble Playwrights Lab season 10.

Full Lengths Include: Maiden Voyage (Jane Chambers Honorable Mention, Bay Area Festival Finalist, Kennedy Center American College Festival: Lorraine Hansberry Award 2nd Place, The Paula Vogel Playwriting Award Distinguished Achievement, and The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award Distinguished Achievement), Atlantic City Seagulls (Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice Finalist) BEASTS (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice Finalist) The Casualties of Need (Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice Finalist)

Her musical, Brewsters has been the recipient of The Drama League First Stage Residency (w/dir. Daniella Caggiano), The Tofte Lake Emerging Artists Residency, The Boston University Arts Travel Grant, and The Sappho Project W*rk Lab.

She has been published by Smith & Kraus and Concord Theatricals/Sam French and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University.