Grace Everett (she/her) is a playwright and actress based in Chicago. She works out of both her primary location, Chicago, and her hometown near Dallas, TX. Grace is fascinated by the way her own life impacts her art, and allows her identity as a queer autistic woman from the American South to inform every word she writes.
Grace’s first (and most awarded) play, The Last Sunrise of August 1973, won the Texas Thespian Festival PLAYWORKS short play competition and received an Honorable Mention in the YouthPLAYS New Voices One Act Competition. Since then, Grace’s work has been seen at colleges and local theatres across the United States. A Staged reading of her most recent full-length play, Median, was seen as a part of DePaul University’s Wrights of Spring festival of new plays.
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Grace Everett (she/her) is a playwright and actress based in Chicago. She works out of both her primary location, Chicago, and her hometown near Dallas, TX. Grace is fascinated by the way her own life impacts her art, and allows her identity as a queer autistic woman from the American South to inform every word she writes.
Grace’s first (and most awarded) play, The Last Sunrise of August 1973, won the Texas Thespian Festival PLAYWORKS short play competition and received an Honorable Mention in the YouthPLAYS New Voices One Act Competition. Since then, Grace’s work has been seen at colleges and local theatres across the United States. A Staged reading of her most recent full-length play, Median, was seen as a part of DePaul University’s Wrights of Spring festival of new plays.
Most recently, Grace wrote and co-directed an original play for an autistic and neurodiverse audience, called The Adventures of Spectrum Sparks, commissioned by CenterStage Theatre Works, in partnership with Frisco Discovery Center and the City of Frisco, TX. The play was well-received by audience members of all ages and neurotypes, and Grace is continuing to share Spectrum with the world this year as a speaker at Northwestern University’s Inclusive Theatre Festival. Grace has also worked with Berklee College of Music’s Institute for Accessible Arts Education, including as a guest podcast host on ABLE Voices and as a performer/speaker at their Day Sessions for young musicians with disabilities.
When she’s not writing, Grace is passionate about advocating for a more inclusive, accessible theatre industry. She also loves acting, singing, her job as an escape room Game Master, and pointing out every dog she sees around Chicago.
BFA Playwriting (w/ Disability Studies certification): Theatre School @ DePaul University, 2025.