About Calley
CALLEY N. ANDERSON (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Memphis, TN. Her work has been staged at several colleges and 10-minute play festivals around the country. She is a graduate of Davidson College (BA: English; Concentration: Film & Media Studies) and The New School for Drama (MFA: Playwriting).
After Davidson, Anderson 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 Director at NY Writers Coalition, most specifically presiding over and leading workshops within NYWC’s Black Writers Program. In addition to her non-profit work, Anderson served as the U.S. Showrunner’s Assistant for Season 2 of Peacock’s One of Us Is Lying.
Anderson is a currently member of the Dramatists Guild, American Theatre Group PlayLab, Page 73 Writers Group, and the National Black Theatre SOUL Series Lab I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency. She is a James Baldwin MacDowell Fellow (Fall 2022) and is an alum of the Liberation Theatre Company Writing Residency Program (2022-2023), Clubbed Thumb 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.
Recent Readings & Productions
Collective Empathy Formation from 1968 and 2018
Three Six Nine Monologue & Short Play Festival
April 2023 | Production
Performative
Fade to Black 10-Minute Play Festival
June 2022 | Production
Someone Else’s Bullet
The Civilians Findings Series @ Theaterlab
June 2022 | Developmental Reading
Interlopers
Clubbed Thumb Summerworks @ Wild Project
June 2022 | Developmental Reading
Where you’ll see her next
Upcoming Readings & Productions
Collective Empathy Formation from 1968 and 2018
Directed by Nigel Semaj
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at Theatre Row
part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival