Whitney Rowland
Whitney Rowland is a Minneapolis-based playwright and screenwriter. She's currently working her dream job at Ubisoft Quebec, as a Scriptwriter on an upcoming Assassin's Creed game, and she was previously at Ubisoft Shanghai. Whitney has been a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a finalist for the UMass PlayLab,...
Whitney Rowland is a Minneapolis-based playwright and screenwriter. She's currently working her dream job at Ubisoft Quebec, as a Scriptwriter on an upcoming Assassin's Creed game, and she was previously at Ubisoft Shanghai. Whitney has been a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a finalist for the UMass PlayLab, shortlisted for the Theatre503 (London, UK) New Play Award, as well as a finalist for both the Jerome Playwriting Fellowship and the Core Writer program at the Playwrights’ Center. Her plays have been developed at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Mid-America Theatre Conference, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festivals (regional and national), Great Plains Theatre Conference, and PlayPenn New Play Development Conference, where Whitney was named a 2019 Haas Fellow. Her work has been produced at Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Minnesota Shorts, Northwest Children’s Theater & School, as well as colleges and universities around the country. On the screen side of things, Whitney’s kids' sports feature-length screenplay THE BUZZBOTS was a winner in the 2017 CMU/Sloan Screenwriting Contest, earning her a $7,500 grant. Her family drama THE WAY UP was a 2016 finalist for the same award. Whitney holds a Bachelors from the University of Kansas, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon. You can learn more about her work at www.rowlandwriter.com.