Hanna Novak is a New York City-based playwright, director, and producer. Her plays include Left Out (Semi-finalist, 2022 O’Neill NPC), I Wanna Destroy You (The Performing Garage, 2019) and The Opera is Always on the Table (New Ohio Ice Factory, 2018). She is a member of EST/Youngblood, a New Georges affiliated artist, and an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers Group. She has received residencies and workshops through the Ucross Foundation and The Hearth. Hanna graduated from the MFA Playwriting program at Hunter College, where she studied with Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. She is the Producing Director for the theater company Elevator Repair Service.