About

Mallory Jane Weiss is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work primarily spirals around female stories, especially as they relate to friendship, time, and finding the mythical inside the mundane.

Select full-length plays include Big Black Sunhats (The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2022; Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission finalist 2020), LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO (The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist 2023; Clubbed Thumb reading June 2022), The Page Turners (Princes Grace semi-finalist 2022; The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist 2021), Pony Up (Princess Grace finalist, 2019; SPACE on Ryder Farm semi-finalist, 2020; The New School, 2019), Howl From Up High (Gingold Theatrical Group), and Losing You, Which Is Enough (workshop readings at The Lark and Cherry Lane Theatre).

 Select short plays include Evermore Unrest (Red Bull Short New Play Festival 2020), Dave and Julia are stuck in a tree (Playing on Air’s James Stevenson Prize 2020), Underwater (published in “The Dionysian Issue 004”; The New School, 2017), and WOMAN, OCTOPUS, COMEDIAN (Root Beer Occasion’s Living Room Stories 2020).

Mallory is a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group (2021-2022), The COOP’s Clusterf**k vol. 2 (2021), Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers Corner (2018-2019), and Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB Retreat (2019)

Other bylines include short story, “In The House She Was Given,” in Hello Winter, short humor pieces on Medium, as well as the research-based content (including audio plays, graphic novels, and short-form articles) she writes as a Senior Writer for Ethena, a tech start-up creating compliance training for corporate teams. 

Mallory also works as a teacher/teaching artist (The Hotchkiss School, Salisbury Summer School), a writing tutor, and a cycling instructor. BA: Harvard University, MFA: The New School.