Mary Sue Price writes about people in America who fall through the cracks. Most of her plays are set in northeastern Oklahoma and the Missouri Ozarks. Her style is realism with a twist.
Her play, 'Billy the Bomber,' was produced Off-Off Broadway in 2023, was presented as a staged reading as part of the Summer Playwrights Festival 7 at The Road Theater in Los Angeles, and was a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and Page 73. She completed three residencies playwright/teacher at the Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, KS where she worked on 'The Chat Rats Trilogy', three plays about two families which were sustained and deeply damaged by the lead and zinc mining industry in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas.
She recently completed a commission from Tulsa...
Mary Sue Price writes about people in America who fall through the cracks. Most of her plays are set in northeastern Oklahoma and the Missouri Ozarks. Her style is realism with a twist.
Her play, 'Billy the Bomber,' was produced Off-Off Broadway in 2023, was presented as a staged reading as part of the Summer Playwrights Festival 7 at The Road Theater in Los Angeles, and was a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and Page 73. She completed three residencies playwright/teacher at the Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, KS where she worked on 'The Chat Rats Trilogy', three plays about two families which were sustained and deeply damaged by the lead and zinc mining industry in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas.
She recently completed a commission from Tulsa Opera.
Ms. Price has won two Emmy Awards and a WGA Award as a member of the ‘General Hospital’ writing team. Her play, ‘That Midnight Rodeo’, is published in the ‘Take Ten’ anthology and is frequently produced throughout the United States. She was a member of the Circle Repertory Company Lab and Playwrights Unit.
A fifth-generation native of the Missouri Ozarks, Ms. Price holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a Lifetime Member of the Writers Guild of America. After living over three decades in New York City and Vermont, , she now lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.