Will Arbery

Will Arbery is a playwright, TV/film writer, and filmmaker from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. Plays: Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons) // Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons) // Plano (Clubbed Thumb) // Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (The New Group 2022, New Neighborhood 2018) // Wheelchair (3 Hole Press) // You Hateful Things (development at The Public, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and NYTW Dartmouth Residency). He's currently under commission from Audible, MTC, and Playwrights Horizons. TV/Film: Developing TV series with A24/HBO, Littlefield Co./Touchstone, Endeavor Content, and Hulu. Film projects with BBC Films/A24, Animal Kingdom, and Sight Unseen. Writer on "Succession" (HBO). Awards: Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Whiting Award for Drama, Obie Award for Playwriting (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Tow Foundation Grant, Edes Prize for Emerging Artists, and Stage Raw Award for Best Playwriting (The Mongoose). Member/alum: New Dramatists, P73's I-73, EST/Youngblood, The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group, Colt Coeur. Features/interviews/podcasts: The New York Times (for Corsicana), The New York Times (for Heroes 1), The New York Times (for Heroes 2), The Paris Review (for Corsicana), The Paris Review (for Whiting Award), The Paris Review (for Plano), BOMB Magazine, Vox, Politico, American Theatre, Brooklyn Rail, NPR, Vanity Fair, On Point, Upstage Left, Know Your Enemy, MUSEUM, The Subtext, America Magazine, HowlRound, Dallas Morning News, Texas Monthly, Wyoming Public Media, The Brian Lehrer Show, Patheos, Jesuitical, The Antenna Method, and The Wicked Stage. While in grad school, he was named one of Variety’s “110 Students to Watch.” Dance work: Steppenwolf, Pioneer Works, The Watermill Center, and MCA Chicago, Featured on Desus & Mero and Creators Project. Education: ​​MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage from Northwestern University. BA in English & Drama from Kenyon College.