hi, it's me, connor wentworth! if you've made it to this portion of my website, i hope you have realized that by now.

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i write plays — some may even call me a playwright (wild, right?).

 

i like to think of theatre as a playground: a space for risk, mess, discovery, and unexpected beauty. i write because i have questions. about queerness. about family. about memory and grief and the deeply human ache of wanting things you maybe shouldn’t want. i don’t always arrive at answers — and honestly, i’m not sure that’s the point — but i do try to shape the questions in ways that invite others in. to listen. to recognize themselves. to be changed, even slightly.

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my work tends to live in the space between tenderness and tension. i’m drawn to plays that whisper secrets and plays that start fires — sometimes both at once. i care deeply about queer representation, not just in who’s centered onstage, but in how stories unfold: fragmented, nonlinear, slippery, strange. i’m fascinated by theatrical forms that bend and break and reassemble themselves. plays that aren’t afraid to be contradictory or raw. plays that reflect the weird, exquisite difficulty of being alive.

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i’ve had the privilege of developing and producing work in maine (the state), boston, san francisco, and new york (the city). each of those places has taught me something different about the power of gathering. about what audiences need — and what they didn’t know they needed until a story gave it to them. i live in new york city now (for the moment...), and i hold a bfa in contemporary theatre from boston conservatory, where i learned how to throw spaghetti at the wall and figure out what strands are worth staging, what strands are better left alone, and what strands reveal something unexpected when they land just right.

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i write plays because i believe theatre can still be sacred. that it can hold grief, mess, humor, anger, desire, silence, and contradiction all in the same breath. my ambition as a playwright is to create work that feels intimate and urgent, that gives actors something 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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i hope my plays not only make space, but define them — for other queer artists, for stories that haven’t been told, for forms that haven’t yet been tried. i want to build a body of work that challenges institutions to take risks, to be braver, to believe that newness and vulnerability aren’t just viable — they’re vital.

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in addition to all of those very poetic and potentially profound things i just said, i love the tv show survivor, the color purple, and seattle (the city — go kraken!). i also 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 human.

 

if you want to learn more about the plays or see pictures and videos from past productions, there are tabs on this very website that’ll take you where you need to go. there’s also a resume. and a contact page, just in case you want to say hi or make something together. 

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all the love! :) 

Connor