Colleen O'Doherty is a Chicago-based writer. She has her MFA in play and screenwriting from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her plays have been part of many festivals, including: Bold Dorothy, Retired, as part of Br!nk Briefs at Renaissance Theaterworks, 2017 in Milwaukee, WI and Itinerant Theater’s “The Play’s the Thing” in Lake Charles, LA, May 2019.  Elevated and Swipe Right at the Bar as part of Cone Man Running Productions’ Five-Minute Mile 2017 in Houston, TX. Northern Bound as part of Station Hope at Cleveland Public Theater in Cleveland, OH. Meet Puberty won "Festival Favorite" for the Funky Little Theater Company's 2018 Spectrum festival in Denver, CO. Ricky and Ready was in Heartland Theatre Company‘s 10-minute Play Festival, Normal, IL, June 2019 and Secret Theater's Act One: One Act Festival, NYC, February 2020. Sister of Experience was produced at Playwrights’ Round Table Summer Shorts in Orlando, FL, July 2019. MOABIRTHC  was in Funhouse IV at the Theatre Off Jackson in Seattle, WA, November 2018 and Omaha's Fringe Festival, July 2019. Her play, Stripped, was a quarterfinalist for ScreenCraft's 2018-19 stage play competition based out of LA and a 2018 Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women Finalist. It was part of TheatreMidwest's Fresh Produce Concert Reading Series in 2020 in Des Moines, IA. Her play, Stories: on the Brink was part of the Great Plains Theatre Commons season in Omaha, NE in October 2021.