Mallery Avidon is a playwright, screenwriter, teacher, and dramaturg whose work blends sharp wit, surrealism, and intimate cultural commentary. Known for pushing The boundaries between fact and fiction, her plays often explore themes of belief, identity, community, and disconnection in contemporary America.
Avidon’s work has been produced at leading venues across the country. Her play O Guru Guru Guru, or Why I Don’t Want to Go to Yoga Class with You premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mary-Kate Olsen Is In Love, which debuted at The Flea Theater, was praised for its satirical take on millennial culture and female agency. Other productions have appeared at venues including Target Margin Theater, HERE Arts Center, and the Bushwick Starr...
Mallery Avidon is a playwright, screenwriter, teacher, and dramaturg whose work blends sharp wit, surrealism, and intimate cultural commentary. Known for pushing The boundaries between fact and fiction, her plays often explore themes of belief, identity, community, and disconnection in contemporary America.
Avidon’s work has been produced at leading venues across the country. Her play O Guru Guru Guru, or Why I Don’t Want to Go to Yoga Class with You premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mary-Kate Olsen Is In Love, which debuted at The Flea Theater, was praised for its satirical take on millennial culture and female agency. Other productions have appeared at venues including Target Margin Theater, HERE Arts Center, and the Bushwick Starr in New York, and Pavement Group in Chicago.
Her television work includes serving as a staff writer for Season 2 of HBO’s High Maintenance, and she developed shows with Paul Giamatti and Sue Naegle’s production companies. Her screenwriting voice mirrors her theatrical sensibility: smart, strange, emotionally honest, and often darkly funny.
Avidon is also a committed educator and dramaturg. She taught playwriting at Cornish College of the Arts and in public high schools through ACT Theatre’s Young Playwrights Program. She has also taught and developed new work in prisons, colleges, and independent workshops. A former co-curator of the Bushwick Starr reading series and a frequent collaborator with Target Margin Theater, Avidon has worked closely with a wide range of artists and institutions committed to formal experimentation.
A graduate of Brown University’s MFA Playwriting program, she previously earned her BFA in Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts. Her current projects include teaching art and writing workshops to unhoused folks at the Shelter where she works in Santa Cruz, and a new play called A YEAR OF DAYS, a play of poems written one day at a time.