Playwright | Screenwriter DeborahYarchun.com | MFA, University of Iowa Teaching Artist Winner of Dartmouth’s Neukom Literary Arts Award in Playwriting (an award that celebrates work that explores what it means to be human in a computerized world). ✍️ 🎭 I write dark dramas (with humor). 📺 I’m fascinated and terrified by AI and new technologies; a lot of my recent work explores the complex benefits and destructive possibilities of a fully wired world. Current projects: *The Wrong Approach (tv pilot) *Atlas, the Lonely Gibbon (play) *Drive (play) *a novel (revising) 🏆My other honors include: 2021 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder for Drama TV Pilot (The Wrong Approach), two Jerome Fellowships at The Playwrights’ Center, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition’s Collaboration Award, an EST/Sloan Commission, the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, and a BroadwayWorld Regional Award for Best Original/New Work. 📍LA