Trish Harnetiaux

Trish Harnetiaux is a playwright, filmmaker and podcast creator. Her narrative podcast The MS Phoenix Rising, about the relaunch of the cruise ship industry, is available on Playwrights Horizons Soundstage. She's developing the TV pilot this summer through The Orchard Project's Episodic Lab.

Current plays include Bender and Brian, a subversive tale of Breakfast Club fanfiction (pandemic delayed, forthcoming JACK), and California (Clubbed Thumb commission). She directed and co-wrote the short film You Wouldn't Understand, which was an official selection of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

She’s developed and presented work at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, JACK and more. She has been a resident at MacDowell, Millay, SPACE at Ryder Farm and Yaddo. Ars Nova Play Group, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College. She published a Christmas thriller novel with Simon & Schuster in 2019, White Elephant. She teaches in the Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program. Plays published by Samuel French: Tin Cat Shoes, How to Get into Buildings, Welcome to the White Room, If You Can Get to Buffalo. www.trishharnetiaux.com