Amelia Merrill is a playwright, dramaturg, and journalist based in New York. She is a contributing editor at American Theatre magazine, and you can read her journalism in Narratively, TheaterMania, AwardsWatch, Shondaland, Mic, Hey Alma, and many other places. Amelia holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Dickinson College and an M.S. in Communications from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. As a production dramaturg, she has worked with Open Stage of Harrisburg and Pendragon Theatre. She is a former education intern at Baltimore Center Stage and has professional stage management experience.


My work investigates the constructs and confines of girlhood and femininity, often with an eye toward the Jewish experience. I am less interested in getting to the "truth" of something than in how we define and shape the truth. Some topics I explore in my plays include the creation of modern cultural myths, the intricacies of adaptation, the relationship between climate change, youth, and the body, how communal trauma affects personal growth, and—always—the relationship between a body and the space it's in.