Dorothy Fortenberry is a playwright and graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Her plays include Caitlin and the Swan, Good Egg, Bibles and Candy, and the play with music Large as Life and Twice as Natural: a Status Update with Songs.
Her work has been developed at Arena Stage, Ars Nova, Geva Theatre, New Jersey Rep, and Perishable Theatre, and produced by Chalk Rep, Red Fern Theatre, and The Management. She is a winner of the Helen Merrill Award, the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and has been nominated for the PONY Fellowship, the Weissberger Award, and the Wasserstein Prize. Her play Large as Life and Twice as Natural was a 2011 Finalist for the O’Neill Conference. Her play Good Egg won the Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Prize, and was a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She has received an EST/Sloan commission, a residency at the Djerassi Program, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Dorothy is an alumna of Youngblood and a member of the Playwrights Union and Tilted Field Productions. She has taught playwriting for Young Playwrights Theater in Washington, DC, the Dwight/Edgewood Project in New Haven, CT, and currently teaches with the Virginia Avenue Project in Los Angeles.
In this picture, she is in Waverly, Alabama.