Alle Mims is a genderfluid Black artist living in Harlem, NY. Mims earned their BA in Drama from Texas Woman’s University (’16) and MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University (’23) under the instruction of Lynn Nottage and David Henry Hwang. While at Columbia, they also studied early 20th century Black radical history.
Mims is currently a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers Group and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference ('24). Mims was a finalist for the Van Lier New Voices Fellowship, Ars Nova’s Play Group, the Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellowship (’23) and Columbia@Roundabout Reading Series ('21). Mims was a semi-finalists for Queercat Procution’s Black Trans Artist Offering and Alter Theater Enseble’s Decolonization Stories Commission ('22). Mims'...
Alle Mims is a genderfluid Black artist living in Harlem, NY. Mims earned their BA in Drama from Texas Woman’s University (’16) and MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University (’23) under the instruction of Lynn Nottage and David Henry Hwang. While at Columbia, they also studied early 20th century Black radical history.
Mims is currently a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers Group and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference ('24). Mims was a finalist for the Van Lier New Voices Fellowship, Ars Nova’s Play Group, the Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellowship (’23) and Columbia@Roundabout Reading Series ('21). Mims was a semi-finalists for Queercat Procution’s Black Trans Artist Offering and Alter Theater Enseble’s Decolonization Stories Commission ('22). Mims' pilot, "The Queen's Crown," won WeScreenplay College Screenwriting Competition ('21).
Mims is currently commissioned by theGrio to write a narrative podcast about Dorothy West and her trip to Moscow in 1932. Mims was commissioned by Bishop Arts Theatre in Dallas as a part of the How To Be… Project, in which playwrights wrote short plays inspired by Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist. Mims co-wrote the book for ‘The Tree: An American Musical’ with 6 other Dallas playwrights as a commission for Imprint Theatreworks.