About Calley

CALLEY N. ANDERSON (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Memphis, TN. Her work has been staged at several colleges and play festivals around the country. She is a graduate of The New School for Drama (MFA: Playwriting) and Davidson College (BA: English; Concentration: Film & Media Studies).

After Davidson, Calley spent three years in the Memphis non-profit arts sector before moving to New York City to pursue her Master's degree. She currently serves as Program Manager at Teachers & Writers Collaborative. You can learn more about her work history here.

Calley is currently a 2025 - 2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a National Black Theatre I AM SOUL Resident Playwright, and a member of the American Theatre Group BIPOC PlayLab and the Dramatists Guild. She was a James Baldwin MacDowell Fellow (Fall 2022) and is an alum of Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire (2026), Page 73’s Writers Group (2024), Liberation Theatre Company’s Writing Residency Program (2022-23), Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group (2021-22), The Civilians’ R&D Group (2021-22), and Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows (2020-21). Past commissions include the Davidson College Theatre Department and the University of Memphis Dept. of Theatre and Dance.