CALLEY N. ANDERSON

A workshop production of Calley’s play, The Grioraphet Speaks on Sundays, will close out National Black Theatre’s 2026-2027 season in Spring 2027!

Calley chats with artist Kate McLeod about opinions, the digital age, and the nature of criticism for an episode of The Authenticated Podcast!

Calley was selected as a cohort member of Fault Line Theatre’s 2026 Irons in the Fire! A reading of her play, Ivy, 1859, was presented on June 30, 2026 at University Settlement’s Speyer Hall.

Calley has been selected as a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Theatre, Performance, and Spoken Word!

Calley chats with artist jeremy o’brian about being Southern Black playwrights, politics, Toni Morrison, and more for Episode 2 of “Short Story University”!

Calley’s play, Collective Empathy Formation from 1968 and 2018, received second place for Best Short and the Audience Award at the 22nd Downtown Urban Arts Festival!

7th grader London Ivy interviewed Calley about her playwriting journey for Season 2 of JA Memphis podcast “World Ready Radio”!

Calley was one of eight playwrights selected for the 2024 Page 73 Writers Group! She was also one of twelve semifinalists for the 2024 Fellowship.

Calley wrote an article about process for her new play, Someone Else’s Bullet, for The Civlians’ Extended Play site.

Calley was interviewed about The Story and the Teller, her writing process, and the play’s ties to critical fabulation for HowlRound Theatre Commons.