Brittany Fisher is an East Coast based playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. She is a graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program under the direction of David Lindsay-Abaire and Tanya Barfield, and holds a BA in Journalism with a Creative Writing Minor from James Madison University.

She is the winner of the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, as well as their Rosa Parks Award (2nd place), Paula Vogel Award (2nd place), and Mark Twain Award for Comic Playwriting (2nd place). She has been a finalist for the Leah Ryan Prize, Alliance Theatre Kendeda Competition, and American Blues Theatre’s Blue Ink Award. She’s been selected for the O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and has been a Pipeline New Works Fellow.

Her work has been featured at and developed with The Kennedy Center, National Black Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, American Blues Theatre, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Alliance Theatre, Cadence Theatre Company and Virginia Repertory Theatre.

Her debut short film, Bleach, has screened at festivals including LA International Film Fest and 4Theatre Festival.