Marissa Joyce Stamps is a Black, Haitian-American, NYC-based Afrosurreal writer, director, + educator. She’s the recipient of the 2023 Princess Grace Playwriting Award/New Dramatists Residency, is a member of Clubbed Thumb's 2023-2024 ECWG, was a Mercury Store Fall 2023 Lead Artist, and was named a Finalist for The National Black Theatre's 2023 I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency. She is also a New Georges affiliate artist. Recent: …Twisted Juniper (2022 O’Neill NPC Finalist, Chautauqua’s 2021 NPW, Workshop Theater’s 2021 Intensive), Being Up in Here… (Exponential Festival 2024; Brick Aux 2022), Blue Fire… (Exponential Festival 2022; Orchard Project 2021), Letiche… (Bushwick Starr SRS 2023), deadbodydeadbodydeadbody (Ars Nova ANT Fest 2022). Marissa has also collaborated with The Public Theater, 24 Hour Plays, Fire This Time Festival, Conch Shell Productions, Moxie Arts, Dixon Place, Irondale, The Anthropologists, New Ohio Theatre, Keen Company, Wild Project, BUFU, and more. Marissa serves as The Workshop Theater’s Literary Manager. MFA Playwriting: Brooklyn College. Marissajoycestamps.com