Pravin Wilkins is a published playwright and poet from San Diego, California, whose works typically deal with race & class struggle--and the many intersections between. He began writing plays in the mid-2010s, during his time at the University of California, San Diego. There, he received the faculty-nominated Eric Bowling Award for his site-specific protest piece, #takebackgraffitihall. After graduating in 2018, he continued his playwriting journey by traveling to Pittsburgh to pursue a master’s degree at Carnegie Mellon University.
In May 2020, Pravin received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from the CMU School of Drama; since then, he has received significant national & international recognition, having been selected as a finalist for the 2020 O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference &...
Pravin Wilkins is a published playwright and poet from San Diego, California, whose works typically deal with race & class struggle--and the many intersections between. He began writing plays in the mid-2010s, during his time at the University of California, San Diego. There, he received the faculty-nominated Eric Bowling Award for his site-specific protest piece, #takebackgraffitihall. After graduating in 2018, he continued his playwriting journey by traveling to Pittsburgh to pursue a master’s degree at Carnegie Mellon University.
In May 2020, Pravin received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from the CMU School of Drama; since then, he has received significant national & international recognition, having been selected as a finalist for the 2020 O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference & subsequently winning the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award for his first full length play, Moreno. Pravin was selected as a Fall 2020 Writer-in-Residence at City Books in Pittsburgh, where he continued working on new plays while curating a digital bookshelf, complete with recommendations and reviews. His plays and poems have since been featured and digitally produced by The Dramatic Question Theater (The Hamlet Monologues, 2021) and Four Walls Theater (Bars, 2020; Reclamation, 2021). Pravin received an Offie nomination for Most Promising New Playwright in recognition of Moreno, which–in March 2022–received its world premiere at Theatre503 in London. The London production was also a finalist for three Standing Ovation awards, including best new play. In the summer of 2023, Pravin’s most recent work, Organized Chaos, was workshopped at the Great Plains Theatre Conference—this play was also recognized as a 2023 Woodward/Newman Award Finalist and a 2024 Live Arts Waterworks Festival Finalist. Pravin currently lives in Philadelphia, where he works as a writer, educator, and organizer.
Moreno received its US premiere in November, 2024, at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia—this production was nominated for three Barrymore Awards including Outstanding Lead Performance, Outstanding Supporting Performance, and Outstanding Movement/Choreography.