Arlene Hutton is best known for Last Train to Nibroc, the first FringeNYC production to transfer Off-Broadway. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and recipient of a 2016 NYFA Fellowship. Her Nibroc Trilogy includes Last Train to Nibroc (NY Drama League Best Play nomination), See Rock City (In the Spirit of America Award) and Gulf View Drive (LA Weekly and Ovation Award nominations, 2018 Ovation Award for Best Production at Rubicon Theatre). Hutton has an EST/Sloan Foundation commission, a fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission and a commission from the Big Bridge Theatre Consortium. in NY her plays have received development at The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists, The Barrow Group, FAB Women, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Project Y and Access Theatre, where she was a resident artist.
Regional production credits include Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, B Street Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, Echo Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Playhouse on Park and Chester Theatre. Her plays have been presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Off- and Off-Off-Broadway and at theatres across the US, in London and throughout the world. Other works include Running, I Dream Before I Take the Stand, Letters to Sala, Three Sisters Brontë and As It Is In Heaven. Her play for young audiences, Happy Worst Day Ever, was commissioned by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and was named winner of the 2010 Macy’s New Play Prize.
Hutton is an eight-time Actors Theatre of Louisville 10-Minute Play Contest finalist, three- time winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival, finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize and recipient of the Lippman and Calloway Awards. Residencies include the Australian National Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
Hutton has been a William Inge Fellow in Kansas, resident playwright for Greenville Centre Stage’s New Play Festival, and twice named the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at the University of the South. Her scripts are published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, Dramatic Publishing and Playscripts and appear in numerous anthologies. Based in New York City, she teaches playwriting at The Barrow Group.