News

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

• Calley’s play, The Alligator, was selected as a finalist for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival!

• Calley participated in an Institutional Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm as part of her Liberation Theatre Company Writing Residency.

• Calley was selected for the 2022 I AM SOUL Playwright Residency at Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre!

• Calley was named a James Baldwin Fellow and spent four weeks in residence at MacDowell in August - September 2022!

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

• Calley was selected as a participant of Liberation Theatre Company’s 2022-2023 Writing Residency Program!

• The Davidson College Social Justice Theatre Troupe performed Calley’s play, This Special Place, created for and with the Troupe through a commission by the Davidson College Theatre Department.

• Calley was selected as a member of The Civilians' 2021-2022 R&D Group!

• Calley was recently profiled by Memphis Black newspaper, The New Tri-State Defender.

• Calley was selected as a member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2021-2022 Early Career Writers Group!

• Calley, her work, and details about The Alligator were featured for the DGF Fellows Spotlight series.

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

• Calley was selected as one of the Dramatists Guild Foundation 2020-2021 Fellows!

• Calley was selected as an inaugural member of the American Theatre Group PlayLab!

• Calley was featured, along with her graduate thesis play The Alligator, by 3Views on Theater.

• Calley was commissioned by the University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance!

• Everyone But Us was a Featured Play on New Play Exchange!

Calley spent the summer assisting playwright Michael Weller at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.

The Hell is Normal rehearsal process was featured on The New School’s blog!