About

Mollie Gordon (she/her/hers) is a queer playwright and theatre-maker based in Newark, New Jersey. She is currently a member of the 2026-27 Storyteller Studio cohort with The New Jersey Play Lab. She was recently a member of the 2025-26 QueerSpeech cohort with The Cult Collective and CRY HAVOC/NY Shakespeare Exchange's inaugural Brave New Work cohort. Her play If It Weren't for the Women, We'd Still Be Stuck in the Desert was a 2024 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist, the 2024 winner of the Scribe Playwriting Competition, a finalist for the 2026 MOXIE Lamoise New Works festival, and long listed for the 2026 Distillery New Works Festival. She was The Bechdel Group's 2023-24 Resident Playwright and a member of the inaugural Personal Pizza Party Writers' Kitchen cohort. Mollie's plays have been developed with The Cult Collective, The Bechdel Group, CRY HAVOC/NY Shakespeare Exchange, Athena Project, Personal Pizza Party, and Sarah Lawrence College. She has a BA in Theatre and Writing from Sarah Lawrence.

 

Mollie uses her writing to create queer utopias, and to depict queer people carving out space for themselves in the midst of capitalist and patriarchal claustrophobia. Her plays feature elements of magical realism and the use of comedy as a coping mechanism, creating a sense of safety for actors and audience members while exploring heavy themes. These days she is particularly interested in intergenerational conflict, feminine rage, and unexpected human connection.

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Mollie's plays are available on New Play Exchange.