Dorothy Fortenberry is a playwright and recent graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Her plays include Caitlin and the Swan, Good Egg, Bibles and Candy, book and lyrics for the musical Bicycling for Ladies, We’re Celebrities . . . We’re Just Not Famous Yet, and the solo piece Paint Show.
Her work has been developed at Arena Stage, Ars Nova, Geva Theatre, Perishable Theatre, Studio 42, and The Tank, and produced by The Management, Journeyman Productions, and Vital Theatre Company. She served for two years as an Artistic Associate of the Yale Cabaret, and has taught playwriting in Washington, DC and New Haven, CT. She is the winner of 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 Good Egg won the Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Prize, and was a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She is currently working on an EST/Sloan commission, and will be an artist in residence at the Djerassi Program this spring. She is an alumna of Youngblood and a member of the Playwrights Union.
In this picture, she is in Waverly, Alabama.