hi, i’m connor wentworth.

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i write plays. (some people even call me a playwright. still getting used to that.)

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i think of theatre as a playground: a space for risk, mess, discovery, and the kind of unexpected beauty you can’t plan for. i write because i have questions — about queerness, family, memory, grief, and the deeply human ache of wanting things you maybe shouldn’t want. i’m not always trying to arrive at answers. i’m trying to shape the questions into something you can step inside. something that invites you to listen, to recognize yourself, to leave a little changed.

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my work tends to live where tenderness meets tension. i’m drawn to plays that whisper secrets and plays that start fires — sometimes both at once. i care about queer representation not only in who gets centered onstage, but in how stories move: nonlinear, fragmented, slippery, strange. i love theatrical forms that bend, break, and reassemble themselves. i’m interested in contradiction. in rawness. in the weird, exquisite difficulty of being alive.

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i’ve had the joy of developing and producing work in maine, boston, san francisco, and new york. each place taught me something different about gathering — about what audiences need, and what they didn’t know they needed until a story handed it to them. i’m based in new york city (for now), and i hold a bfa in contemporary theatre from boston conservatory, where i learned how to throw spaghetti at the wall and pay attention to what sticks — and what surprises you when it does.

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i write because i still believe theatre can be sacred. that it can hold grief, humor, anger, desire, silence, and contradiction all in the same breath. my ambition is to make work that feels intimate and urgent, that gives actors something truly meaty to chew on, and that dares audiences to stay a little longer inside discomfort. i want to create plays that don’t look or sound like anything else — plays that expand what contemporary theatre is and who it’s for.

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and, in addition to all of that: i love the tv show survivor, the color purple, and seattle (go kraken). i love dancing with my friends through the streets of new york, petting dogs and cats, peanut butter and pretzels, skincare, making spotify playlists, and taking naps. i am, unfortunately and proudly, very human.

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if you want to learn more about the plays — or see photos and videos from past productions — you can find everything through the tabs on this site. there’s also a resume, and a contact page if you want to say hi or make something together.

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all the love! :) 

Connor