Addie Ulrey is a playwright and ensemble theatre maker currently pursuing an MFA at Brooklyn College.

Addie was raised by farmers, house painters, meditators, and real-life radicals in Charlotte, Michigan. She holds a BA in theatre from Oberlin College and has trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School and the Double Edge Theatre. She is a long-time collaborator and original core company member of Ragged Wing Ensemble in Oakland, CA, with whom she wrote and produced nine new plays between 2010 and 2018. Other Bay Area affiliations include the Playground Writer’s Pool; The California Shakespeare Theatre (Audience Engagement Fellow, 2017); The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep (finalist for 2020 cohort – cancelled due to Covid); and Emerging Arts Professionals SF/Bay Area (Fellow, 2015-16).

Recurring obsessions in Addie’s work include non-traditional constructions of family, activist culture, whiteness, the changing shape of queer identity, mythologies of creativity and the role of the artist in today’s society. Addie is at home in multidisciplinary collaborations, and has worked closely with composers, visual artists, choreographers and clowns. Her ensemble background has taught her to value writing that is responsive to––and responsible to––context. She believes in theatre that is firmly rooted in place.