BIO
Erin Breznitsky is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work has been performed in NYC and abroad. Her play Satellites can be seen at Dorset Theatre Festival from August 6-16, 2025, in a production directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt and starring Kerry Bishé and Christopher Lowell.
Satellites was also named the winner of Premiere Stages’ 2022 Play Festival, was produced by Premiere Stages in 2023, and further developed at Cape Cod Theatre Project in 2024.
Erin has been a finalist for Shakespeare's New Contemporaries, a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwright’s Conference and the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and her full-length plays have received workshop productions at FringeNYC, Rogue & Peasant Players, and English Theatre of Rome, Italy. Her numerous 10-minute plays have appeared in Six Part / Reign or Shine Productions' "Love Drunk" series and New York Madness. Other projects include a commission by Urban Stages for young audiences; producing "Amplify," an International Women's Voices Day event showcasing the work of woman playwrights; and “The Living Mural,” a socially distant pop-up performance in summer 2020.
Erin has participated in workshops with Erik Ehn, Lucy Thurber, and Stuart Spencer, among others. She is the recipient of the Lipkin Prize for Playwriting and a full scholarship to La MaMa's International Playwrights Retreat in Spoleto, Italy. She holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
Writing Résumé
*self-produced project
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Aug 2025: Satellites, dir. Adrienne Camphell-Holt, Dorset Theatre Festival (Dorset, VT)
July 2023: Satellites, dir. John Wooten, Premiere Stages (Union, NJ)
Aug 2016: Bodies of Water* (AEA showcase), dir. Emerie Snyder, FringeNYC (NYC)
May 2015: R plus J (AEA showcase), dir. Kelly Monroe Johnston, Rogue & Peasant Players (NYC)
Nov 2014: R plus J* (AEA showcase), dir. Roxy MtJoy, Paradise Factory (NYC)
Mar 2014: The Kitchen Table Plays (amateur), dir. Eve Atkinson & Don Carroll, English Theatre of Rome (Rome, Italy)
Aug 2013: The Kitchen Table Plays* (amateur), dir. Tamara Winters, FringeNYC (NYC)
Apr 2012: R plus J (student), dir. Roxy MtJoy, SLC Gradworks (Bronxville, NY)
Dec 2011: Sverginata (university), dir. Tamara Winters, Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
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Fall 2020: Shelter (monologue), dir. Anna Strasser, performed by Wilson Douglas, The Living Mural (NYC)
Winter 2018-19: The Amazing Ava's Great Escape (one-act commission), dir. Ilanna Saltzman, Urban Stages Outreach (NYC)
Jan 2018: Just Animals* (reading), dir. Erin Breznitsky, Amplify*: International Women's Voices Day event (NYC)
Oct 2014: Breakwater (staged reading), dir. Jeff Aldrich, New York Madness (NYC)
LOVE DRUNK 10-MINUTE READING SERIES (NYC)
Nov 2019 (Series 22): The Heirloom (dir. Ilanna Saltzman) & Suffragettes (dir. Erin Breznitsky)
Mar 2018 (Series 14): This Is (a love story) & Last Call (a ghost story) (dir. Phoebe Padget)
Mar 2017 (Series 9): Edge of the World & The War At Home (dir. Logan Reed)
Sept 2016 (Series 8): Split Seconds (dir. Kelly Monroe Johnston) & Survival Town (dir. Logan Reed)
May 2015 (Series 3): Advances (dir. Matthew Klein) & The Counter (dir. Kelly Monroe Johnston)
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July 2024: Satellites (reading series), dir. Adrienne Campbell-Holt, Cape Cod Theatre Project (Falmouth, NH)
Apr 2022: Satellites (reading), dir. John Wooten, Premiere Stages at Kean University (Union, NJ)
Oct 2020: Satellites (virtual reading), dir. Ilanna Saltzman, Reign or Shine Productions
Aug 2017: R plus J (industry reading), dir. Phoebe Padget, Rogue & Peasant Players at Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA)
Nov 2016: The Kitchen Table Plays (staged reading), dir. Barbara Waldinger, HRC Showcase Theatre (Hudson, NY)
2014-2015: The Unwritten City (workshop), Three Act Theatre Company Play Development Group (NYC)
Oct 2014: R plus J (staged reading), dir. Roxy MtJoy, The Drama League (NYC)
Winter 2013: Playwrights Workshop, led by Stuart Spencer (NYC)
July 2011: La MaMa International Playwrights Retreat, led by Erik Ehn (Spoleto, Italy)
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2022: Winner, Premiere Stages Play Festival (Satellites)
2021: Semi-Finalist, O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference (Satellites)
2020: Finalist, Shakespeare's New Contemporaries at American Shakespeare Center (R plus J: a new play)
2019: Semi-Finalist, Landing Theatre Company New American Voices Festival (Survival Town, or The Life And Death Of Miss Atomic Bomb)
2019: Semi-Finalist, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep (Just Animals)
2017: Finalist, Tofte Lake Emerging Artist Program
2017: Finalist, Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround PlayGroup
2016: Semi-finalist, Princess Grace Playwriting Award (The Unwritten City)
2012: Stanley & Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting
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MFA Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College
BA Writing, Susquehanna University
Additional Work
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Manager of Licensing Operations, Disney Theatrical Group (2021-present)
Editorial Assistant, Bellevue Literary Review (2020-2021)
Director of Community Arts, Sing for Hope (2013-2016)
Communications Manager, McCarter Theatre Center (2007-2010)
Marketing Apprentice, George Street Playhouse (2006-2007)
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June 2014: Mahogany Brown & the Case of the Disappearing Kid by Gina Femia, dir. Megan Kosmoski (The Brick)
Apr 2013: Tell Them Nothing, devised & directed by Julianna Rusakiewicz (TheaterLab)
Mar 2013: The Collective by Catya McMullen, dir. Jaki Bradley (Triskelion Arts)
Nov 2012: The Brightness of Heaven by Laura Pedersen, dir. Ludovica Villar-Hauser (Manhattan Rep)
Sept 2012: VGL 5'4” Top by Lucas Brooks, dir. Matthew Klein (Under St. Marks)
July 2012: Domestic by Matthew Klein, dir. Roxy MtJoy (Midtown International Theatre Festival)
June 2012: The Natives Are Restless by Daniel Kessler, dir. Amy R. Surratt (Dixon Place)
Mar 2012: Electric Bathing, devised & directed by Sarah Provost & Lake Simons (Mabou Mines/PS 122)
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Feb 2012: Crazyface, dir. Ernest Abuba (Stage Manager)
April 2011: Table for Three, by Matthew Klein (Director)
Mar 2011: At Home, by Michael Weller (Director)
Feb 2011: We Own These Girls, by James Simmons (Assistant Director)
Oct 2010: St. Joan of the Stockyards, dir. Jeanette Plourde (Music Director/Arranger)