RACHEL BONDS
Rachel Bonds is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and writer for scripted podcasts. Her plays have been developed or produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, Ars Nova, MCC, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, The McCarter, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Studio Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and New York Stage & Film, among others.
Her plays include: JONAH (Roundabout Theatre Company, dir. Danya Taymor); THE LONELY FEW (with music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, MCC, The Geffen, dir. Trip Cullman and Ellenore Scott); GOODNIGHT NOBODY (McCarter, dir. Tyne Rafaeli); SUNDOWN, YELLOW MOON, with songs by The Bengsons (Ars Nova & WP Theatre, dir. Anne Kauffman); CURVE OF DEPARTURE (South Coast Rep, Studio Theatre...
RACHEL BONDS
Rachel Bonds is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and writer for scripted podcasts. Her plays have been developed or produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, Ars Nova, MCC, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, The McCarter, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Studio Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and New York Stage & Film, among others.
Her plays include: JONAH (Roundabout Theatre Company, dir. Danya Taymor); THE LONELY FEW (with music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, MCC, The Geffen, dir. Trip Cullman and Ellenore Scott); GOODNIGHT NOBODY (McCarter, dir. Tyne Rafaeli); SUNDOWN, YELLOW MOON, with songs by The Bengsons (Ars Nova & WP Theatre, dir. Anne Kauffman); CURVE OF DEPARTURE (South Coast Rep, Studio Theatre, Northlight, dir. Mike Donahue); AT THE OLD PLACE (La Jolla Playhouse, dir. Jaime Castañeda); FIVE MILE LAKE (South Coast Rep, McCarter, Shattered Globe); SWIMMERS (Marin Theatre Co, Sky Cooper Prize); THE WOLFE TWINS (Studio Theatre); ALMA (Atlantic Theatre Company commission); MICHAEL & EDIE (NY Times Critic's Pick); WINTER GAMES (Humana Festival, Heideman Award, Public Radio's "Playing on Air"); ANNIVERSARY (EST’s Marathon of One-Act Plays, Sam French OOB Festival Winner and Public Radio’s “Playing on Air.”); and BIRD ("Playing on Air" co-commission with David Auburn).
She is the recent recipient of the 2024 Laurents/Hatcher Prize for JONAH. She has also received the Weissberger Award, the Sky Cooper Prize, and the Heideman Award. Bonds was the 2016 Tow Foundation Playwright in Residence at Ars Nova. She is an Alumna of EST’s Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Play Group and SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Working Farm Writers’ Group. She has also been both a Fr. William Ralston Fellow and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at The Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She has served as a frequent Volunteer/Playwright for the 52nd Street Project.
She recently finished writing the scripted series The Boars’ Nest, starring Mandy Moore, for Audible, is currently developing an original scripted series, also for Audible, adapting JONAH into a feature, and preparing for 2025/26 commercial run of her and Zoe Sarnak’s original musical THE LONELY FEW. Bonds is a proud parent and a parent-artist advocate. Originally from the mountains of Tennessee, she is now based in Brooklyn. www.rachelbonds.com