



playwright &
screenwriter


AVA GEYER is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a member of the Obie-winning writers group EST/Youngblood and under commission by La Jolla Playhouse. She was a 2020 recipient of Theater Masters' Visionary Award and a Shank Resident Playwright at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater ('19-'20).
She writes about tech, economics, sex, and female consciousness. Aaron Sorkin with a feminist heart. Plays include Monster (finalist, Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition), B-Storm (pub. by Concord Theatricals; winner, National MFA Playwrights Festival), Fruit Snacks ("Hopeful Decade" event, Williamsburg, BK),
SERE (Wagner New Play Festival, '18) and Baby Teeth (WNPF '17).
Ava is an Artist Advocate for Healing TREE, a mental health nonprofit for whom she's developing a short film about EMDR therapy. Generally regarded as the most promising young writer to emerge from her Crown Heights apartment.
MFA: UC San Diego '19. BA: Princeton University '15.

ava@avageyer.com | she/hers
