About

Mallory Jane Weiss is a Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based, queer, woman playwright, whose work centers around female friendship, time, and finding the mythical inside the mundane.

Mallory is a member of the 2026 Page 73 Writers Group. She was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow and has worked with Clubbed Thumb, Portland Stage Company, The Sharon Playhouse, The COOP, Gingold Theatrical Group, Fresh Ground Pepper, Parity Productions, among others.

Select plays include R.I.P Lunch (the last male white rhino at the zoo) (The O’Neill NPC semifinalist 2026, Seven Devils finalist 2026, Ashland New Play Festival semifinalist 2026); Big Black Sunhats (Great Plains Theatre Conference 2023; The O’Neill NPC selection 2022; Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission finalist 2020), Anaphora (The O’Neill NPC finalist 2024; Premiere Play Festival semi-finalist 2024), LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO (The O’Neill NPC finalist 2023; Clubbed Thumb reading 2022), The Page Turners (Clauder Competition Gold Prize 2023; Princess Grace Award semi-finalist 2022; The O’Neill NPC finalist 2021), Pony Up (Broadway Play Publishing 2023; Princess Grace Award Finalist 2019), Dave and Julia are stuck in a tree (Playing on Air’s James Stevenson Prize 2020), and DRAWBRIDGE (Concord Theatricals 2024; Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival 2023).

Mallory is also a screenwriter and a fiction writer. She teaches a series writing workshops called, "... the damn thing," which center around curating a sustainable artistic practice at every stage of creation. She has her B.A. in English from Harvard University and her M.F.A. in Playwriting from The New School.