Bella Poynton
Bella Poynton is a playwright, director, and theatre scholar from Buffalo, NY. Her plays have been produced and developed at Alleyway Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, 3rd Act Theatre Company, The Bechdel Group, MadLab Theatre, Otherworld Theatre Company, Antaeus Theatre Company, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, First Look Buffalo and Theatre Viscera, among others. Poynton has been a finalist for the Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award, the Heideman Award, the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, the Sam French OOB Festival, and the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition.
Recently, her work has been published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, The Weirdest Plays of 2020, and WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters. Her scholarly work has been published in Comparative Drama, Theatre/Practice, Global Performance Studies, Texas Theatre Journal and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
Poynton is a co-chair of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid America Theatre Conference, and the director of the Playwrights Wing at First Look Buffalo Theatre Company. MFA, Iowa Playwrights Workshop; PhD, SUNY Buffalo.