Bess Wohl

Bess Wohl's plays include Small Mouth Sounds (featured in top ten lists in The New York Times, The Guardian, New York Post, and others, currently on a national tour), American Hero, Barcelona (multiple Ovation Award nominations), Touched, In, Cats Talk Back and Pretty Filthy, in collaboration with Michael Friedman and The Civilians (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Musical). Her newest play, Continuity, was recently developed at Chicago's Goodman Theater as part of the New Stages festival. She also writes for film and television and her film, Irreplaceable You, premiered on Netflix in February of 2018, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Christopher Walken, Kate McKinnon and Steve Coogan. She won an Athena Award for her original screenplay, Virginia and her screenplay, IN, was included on Hollywood's Black List of best scripts. She has developed original television projects for HBO, ABC, USA, FOX and others. Her plays have been produced or developed at theaters in New