ABOUT

Alanna Coby is a playwright, performer, producer, and teaching artist living in Brooklyn, NY.  As a playwright, she has received residencies with SITI Company, Mabou Mines, The Drama League, Dixon Place, and IRT Theater. She is a proud founding member of The Syndicate, an ensemble theatre company that produces new plays by women, queer and trans artists. Alanna is the creator of Cooking Rage, a satire cooking blog, and Ugly Comics, a comic series about the creative process. She has taught writing and theater workshops at the Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute in Irvington, NY and Presidio Dance in San Francisco.

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Alanna is currently pursuing an MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU, class of 2021, where she is the recipient of a Tisch Graduate Award Scholarship and the Dalio Family Merit Scholarship. 

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