D.W. Gregory’s plays frequently explore political issues through a personal lens and with a comedic twist. The New York Times called her “a playwright with a talent to enlighten and provoke” for her most produced work, Radium Girls, which has received nearly 3,000 productions in the United States and abroad. Other plays include Intimate Exposures (Reading Theater Project); The Other American (New Jersey Repertory Company); Memoirs of a Forgotten Man (National New Play Network [NNPN] rolling world premiere by Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shadowland Stages and New Jersey Repertory Company); Molumby’s Million (Iron Age Theatre), nominated for a Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play by Philadelphia Theatre Alliance; and A Thing of Beauty, winner of the Southeastern Theatre Conference’s 2023 Charles Getchell New Play Award. Current projects include a musical adaptation of Radium Girls with composer Steven M. Alper and lyricist Sarah Knapp and, with the same team, The Yellow Stocking Play, a three-actor version of Twelfth Night, which won Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical in CreateTheater’s 2023 New Works Festival. Gregory’s plays have been developed through the support of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, NNPN, the Playwrights’ Center, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the HBMG Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and New York University’s New Plays for Young Audiences. A member of the Dramatists Guild, Gregory is an affiliated writer with the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and an affiliated artist with NNPN. Gregory also writes for youth theatre (Salvation Road, Penny Candy and Sally Wister) and makes occasional appearances as a teaching artist. For six years in a row, Dramatics magazine named Radium Girls among the 10 Most Produced Plays in American High School Theatre.
