Mary Sue Price writes about people in America who fall through the cracks. Most of her plays are set in northeastern Oklahoma and the Missouri Ozarks. Her style is realism with a twist.
Her play, Billy the Bomber, was presented as a staged reading as part of the Summer Playwrights Festival 7 at The Road Theater in Los Angeles in August 2016. It was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and Page 73. In November 2014, she was a resident playwright/teacher at the Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas where she worked on The Chat Rats Trilogy, three plays about two families which were sustained and deeply damaged by the lead and zinc mining industry in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas.
Price has won two Emmy Awards (2009, 2003) and a Writers Guild of America Award (2012) as a member of the General Hospital writing team. Her play, That Midnight Rodeo, is published in the Take Ten anthology and is frequently produced throughout the United States. She was a member of the Circle Repertory Company Lab and Playwrights Unit.
A fifth-generation native of the Missouri Ozarks, Price holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a Lifetime Member of the Writers Guild of America.