TORI KEENAN-ZELT is an award-winning playwright who also writes for the screen. Originally from Pittsburgh, she has written her way out of an evangelical childhood and two young marriages. Her work uses the interplay of humor and horror to illuminate the dark corners of women's lives that often go unseen.

 

She received a BA from Harvard and an MFA from NYU Tisch and is an affiliated artist with New Georges, The Playwrights Center, The National New Play Network, and The Dramatists Guild. Her plays include How the Baby Died (Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Ingram New Works); Seph (Araca Project, Princess Grace Finalist); Air Space (Kilroys List, Ingram New Works); Truth/Dare (Project Y, NYITA Nominee); The Egypt Play (Playwrights Center); Episode #121: Catfight! (Yale Cabaret), and others. 

 

Her documentary writing is Emmy nominated, and her award-winning one-act play How to Be a Widow aired recently on NPR. Currently, she is developing a feature film and a new play (The Permanent Collection). The JonBenét Game (SF Playhouse commission), is receiving an NNPN Rolling World Premiere at American Lives Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, and Theatre Nova.

 

Tori lives in Brooklyn and Nashville with her partner and grows work around the country.

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