INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Repertory Theatre has hired award-winning playwright Jessica Huang as the organization’s next Playwright-in-Residence following the decades-long tenure of James Still. Huang will serve a three-year appointment for the IRT and will be a part of the Artistic Team, advise on new play development, lead the Young Playwrights in Process program, and represent IRT at various festivals across the country. As a part of her residency, the IRT has commissioned a play from Huang, which will be developed during her time.
A graduate of Juilliard’s Playwrights Program, Jessica Huang is a playwright, librettist, and a Venturous Playwright Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, a MacDowell Fellow, Hermitage Fellow and four-time Playwrights’ Center fellow, and has been a member of Ars Nova Play Group, Civilians R&D Group, and Page 73’s Interstate 73. Her work includes The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin (Indiana Premiere at IRT in 2022), Mother of Exiles, Blended (Harmony): The Kim Loo Sisters, and Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying.
