Biography
Nia Akilah Robinson (she/her) is a playwright and actor who reps Harlem with all her might. She will have a London premiere of her play The Great Privation at Theatre503 in May. The Hearth is producing her play Push Party at TheatreLab in New York City in June. In the fall, she will be a playwriting MFA candidate at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Her work has been seen and developed with Steppenwolf Theatre, the Hearth, the New Group, Theatre503 (UK), The Ground Floor: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Great Plains Theatre Conference, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Waterwell, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Urbanite, and New Georges. She has been a MacDowell Fellow, Travis Bogard Eugene O’Neill Foundation Fellow, and a writer for PEN America and EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (short play). She has had residencies at NYSAF and the Pocantico Center through YoungArts. Her work will be featured in the 2024 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2024 The Fire This Time Festival. Her work was also featured in the 2023 SPACE JAM @ Roundabout Theatre and the 48th Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. She is a member/alumna of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, I-73 at Page 73, the Orchard Project NYCGreenhouse, the Wish Collective, and TheBlackHERthePen. She is proudly represented by Alex Gold at Creative Artists Agency.