Claire Kiechel is a playwright and theater maker living in New York. Her plays include: Pilgrims (developed at the Millay; Pipeline Theatre Company reading; Lark Roundtable Reading; finalist for the Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers); Lulu Is Hungry (Cincinnati Playhouse workshop; Fresh Ground Pepper workshop presentation); Some Dark Places of the Earth (semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award and the O’Neill Theatre Conference); Passenger (finalist for Heideman Award at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville; Crashbox production); Wolf Play (winner of the 2012 Samuel French OOB Festival, published by Samuel French). She is a current member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Obie award winning group Youngblood and The Civilians 2015–2016 R&D Group. She was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2015 Sewanee Writers’ Conference and is a 2016 recipient of South Coast Rep’s Elizabeth George Emerging Writers Commission. Kiechel has a BA from Amherst College and an MFA from the New School for Drama.