Erika Phoebus (she/her) is a queer, neurodivergent playwright whose work orbits around pleasure, autonomy, and all things magical, strange, and a little horrific. Her plays often swing between high-speed satirical humor and earnest poetics, while colliding time and space to explore the ways women and queer folks have been systemically conditioned to disassociate from our pleasure, and the ways white supremacy culture disconnects us from our bodies. Erika thinks of plays as somatic events, and aims to create spaces that invite the audience to safely and joyously reconnect to themselves.

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Her plays include witch play (Selected: Great Plains Theater Conference; Finalist, Soho Rep Writer Director Lab, and Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), hercules actually f*cking sucks (!?) (Workshop Theater Writers Intensive; Semi-Finalist, O'Neill NPC), KISS IT, MAKE IT BETTER (New Ohio Theater), let’s pretend (semi-finalist, O’Neill NPC), RUSALKA (best script & best production awards, Planet Connections Theater Festival), among others. She has received commissions from The Workshop Theater, residencies from Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB retreat and Theatre 4the People @theBarn, and her play Shark Week is published in the 47th Annual Samuel French OOB Festival Anthology. In a past life, she wandered the halls of the McKittrick Hotel as part of Sleep No More. Back in this life, she’s taught high school playwriting workshops across the country and received her Mental Health First Aid Certification from the National Council of Mental Wellbeing. B.F.A. Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. www.erikaphoebus.com. IG: @ephoebs