Discipline: Playwriting
Based In: Brooklyn, NY
Year at Millay: 2016
Awards/Honors: Award Winner, Drama, Whiting Award, The Whiting Foundation, New York, NY (2025); Playwright-in-Residence, Tow Playwright-in-Residence, The Tow Foundation, New Canaan, CT/Ars Nova, New York, NY (2019–2020); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2017, 2015); Fellow, Writing Fellowship, The Playwrights Realm, New York, NY (2016–2017); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Website: https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/liza-birkenmeier
Liza Birkenmeier is a playwright. She is a member of Ars Nova’s Play Group where she was a Tow Playwright-in-Residence from 2019–2020, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at University Settlement in Manhattan. She writes for The Brooklyn Rail and for The Rumpus.