J.C. Pankratz (they/them) is a proud queer, non-binary, transgender playwright and educator writing genre-defying work about gender, class, trauma, and magic.

Their plays are Mortals (Pridefest at The Tank), Eat Your Young (workshop production, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Little Kingdom (2nd Place, Mark Twain Playwriting Award; Distinguished Achievement, Paula Vogel Playwriting Award), Seahorse (2021 FMM Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language), and Redeemer Mine (Finalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference). Beloved collaborators also include CompanyOne, Kitchen Dog Theater, and Lily + Joan Theatre Company. They are a 2023 Core Apprentice with the Playwrights’ Center, a 2023 Visionary Playwright with Theatremasters, and an extremely amateur whittler.

They recently graduated with their MFA from Boston University, and have interned at New Dramatists and Clubbed Thumb.

Please check out their plays on the New Play Exchange.

ABOUT

NEWS

Spring 2023

  • I was named a 2023 Visionary Playwright with Theatremasters and will be atttending the Aspen Ideas Festival.

  • Mortals, directed by Shamus, was featured as part of Pridefest at The Tank!

  • I was commissioned to write for CompanyOne’s SurgeLab 2023: “In Community We Trust.”

Fall 2022

  • A workshop production of my play Eat Your Young happened at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

  • I was a finalist for The Playwrights’ Realm’s 2022/23 Scratchpad Series for my play King of Brando.

Spring & Summer 2022

  • I am a Core Apprentice with the Playwrights Center for 2022-23.

  • I was a semi-finalist for the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission.

  • I was part of Take Ten 2022 for MFA Playwrights through Theatremasters for my play God and the Painter. It will be published in a collection through Concord Theatricals/Samuel French.

  • Egg Tooth was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award.

  • My ten-minute play Bombyx Mori will be published as part of a non-binary play collection with Next Stage Press (coming 2023).

  • Egg Tooth recieves the Distinguished Achievement for the Jean Kennedy Smith Award Seahorse is a National Finalist for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play via KCACTF.

  • I am the recipient of the first FMM Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for Seahorse.