The recipient of a 2014 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, Staci Swedeen also received the Arts and Letters Award in Drama, a NYSCA Grant for New Plays, an EST/Sloan commission and won the Sprenger-Lang Foundation New Play Contest. She is a core Lark Theatre member.
Sweeden’s play The Goldman Project, directed by Joe Brancato, was produced Off Broadway. Other plays have been performed across the country, published in numerous anthologies and presented in many festivals. She performed her one woman show Pardon Me for Living— a biting comedy involving a rabid raccoon— at the prestigious Piccolo Spoleto Festival in 2013.