Courtney Baron

Courtney Baron is a New York-based playwright and television writer. Her play, When It’s You, premiered at the Keen Company in New York City and was part of Aspen Theater’s inaugural Solo Flight Festival. Other plays include: Eat Your Heart Out, produced as part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theater of Louisville; and A Very Common Procedure, which premiered at the Magic Theater (dir. Loretta Greco) and then at MCC in New York (dir. Michael Greif). Her play Consumption was commissioned and produced by the Guthrie Theater in partnership with the University of Minnesota. Other productions include: Here I Lie as part of Summer Shorts at 59E59, NYC; Not Our Last Hurrah at the Kraine Theater, NYC; These Three Here at the Actors Theater of Louisville; Earlstreetman and Confidence Man as a part of Christine Jones’ Theater For One, performed in Times Square. Her play with music composed by Juliana Nash was workshopped at Primary Stages. She has had plays read or workshopped at the Cherry Lane Theatre (mentored by David Auburn), The Atlantic Theater, MTC, MCC, the New Group, Famous Door Theater in Chicago, the Guthrie, EST, as part of the New Works Now series at the Public Theater, the Royal Court in London, and Theatre for the New City. On television, Courtney was Co-Executive Producer of Almost There on the Audience Network starring Steven Pasquale and Christopher Fitzgerald. Courtney has taught television writing at The New School, Stonybrook University and NYU. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.