Dianne Nora (she/her) is a playwright, dramaturg, and comedy writer. In 2019, an abbreviated version of her play Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe, where The Spectator listed it among the "Best of the Fringe." Her play for young audiences, Journey Around My Bedroom, was produced at New Ohio Theatre in 2020, and recommended by The New York Times (Top 5, Weekend Section). She assisted her mentor Tracy Letts on seven productions and workshops at Steppenwolf Theatre and on Broadway. She's a headline and features contributor at The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, and her humor writing has also appeared on Funny Or Die and The Hard Times, where she was previously Head Writer of Breaking News. She’s a winner of Inkwell Theater’s Lerner Fellowship and Playhouse on the Square’s New Works at the Works Playwriting Competition, a recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement grant, and she was a member of Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit, where she was commissioned to write Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Living Document. She was a finalist for The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Ingram New Works Lab at Nashville Rep, and Rough Magic Theatre’s SEEDS program, and a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (in 2014 and 2018), and the Princess Grace Award for playwriting. BA: New York University; MPhil: Trinity College Dublin; MFA: Columbia University School of the Arts.