Val Dunn
Playwright
Val Dunn (she/her) is a writer/deviser who creates plays, zines, and radical queer joy. Her work possesses a strong sense of place and tackles issues of class and dykehood while pushing against the limitations of form. Val developed Carroll County Fix with Core Playwrights, the in-house writers group at InterAct Theatre Company. Val’s writing has also been presented at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philly Theatre Week, Philly SoLow Fest, You Can’t Fail @ Tattooed Mom, and The Museum of the American Revolution. Her play Down in the Holler is the winner of the 2020 Trustus Playwrights' Festival and will receive its world premiere production at Trustus Theatre in 2023. Val is a member at large of Azuka Theatre’s New Pages, an alumna of Core Playwrights @ InterAct Theatre Company, and an alumna of the Foundry @ Play Penn. Her work has additionally been supported by Play Penn, the Orchard Project, the Leeway Foundation, Signal Fire, Centrum Arts, the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, SANDBOX, and Washington College. Val holds a B.A. with honors in drama and English from Washington College where she received the Stewart Award for Drama, The Mary Martin Prize, The Jude & Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize, The William W. Warner Prize for Writing on the Environment, The Literary House Genre Fiction Prize, and was a finalist for the Sophie Kerr prize in Literature. Other Plays: Johnny Depp: A Retrospective On Late-Stage Capitalism (with Jenna Kuerzi), Now More Than Ever, and O, Possum! Val is the founder of The Reminder Plays Project -- a free database of queer plays by queer Philly playwrights. valdunn.com