Fiona Templeton

Discipline: Playwriting

Based In: New York, NY

Year at Millay: 2011

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, KNOCKvologan Studio, Fionnphort, Isle of Mull, Scotland (2025); Fellow, WPR Creative Fellowship, The George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2024–2025); Fellow, Theater, The Bogliasco Center, Bogliasco, Italy (2022, 2008); Artist-in-Residence, Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY (2006); Artist-in-Residence, Resident Artist Program, Mabou Mines, New York, NY (2005, 2004); Grant Recipient, MAP Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY (2004); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2004, 2003, 2002, 1999, 1997, 1996, 1993, 1989); Grant Recipient, Performance Art/Theater, Grants to Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (2002); Fellow, Playwriting, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2000); Grant Recipient, The Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art, Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2000); Grant Recipient, Fellowships for Creative Writers and Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (1995, 1983).

Website: https://www.fionatempleton.cloud/

Fiona Templeton has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in poetry and visual arts, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts in both performance and playwriting.

Born in Scotland, Fiona co-founded the Theatre of Mistakes in London in the 1970s and has lived and worked mostly in New York since 1980. Her award-winning YOU-The City, “an intimate Manhattan-wide play for an audience of one,” has since been recreated in six countries and languages. The Medead, an epic retelling of the life of Medea ten years in the making was produced in 2012 at Roulette in Brooklyn and published by Roof Books. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Relationship, a New York based performance group.