Noelle Viñas

Noelle Viñas is an award-winning playwright, TV writer, and educator from Springfield, Virginia and Montevideo, Uruguay. Her play Derecho had a world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse after being developed as part of both the DNA Festival and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Her work has been developed or in residence as a member of the Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, New York Stage and Film, Tofte Lake Center, Playwrights Foundation, the Civilians R&D Group, NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle, Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Productions include collaborations with Shotgun Players, Imagination Stage, Weston Playhouse, and Colt Coeur, where she is a company member. Most recently, her play Cóndor (o, no es dictadura) received a Weissberg Finishing Commission from Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and IAMA Theatre commissioned and workshopped her two-person play I Said Evolution. Her TV work includes staffing on Mrs. Davis, created by Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof. Her production company, Goblin Brain Productions, creates and invests in works that delight in the weird and unexpected -- as well as examining language and belonging as tools of power. B.A. Emerson College; M.F.A. Brooklyn College.