playwright &
screenwriter

AVA GEYER is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. She's a member of the recently announced 5th cohort of Audible Emerging Writers (audio play commissions for Audible Theatre), a member of Obie-winning writers group EST/Youngblood and under commission by La Jolla Playhouse. Past honors/development include 2023 residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Theater Masters' Visionary Award (2020) and Shank Residency 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), Death Cleaning (Bloodworks Reading Series '23) and Fruit Snacks ("Hopeful Decade" event, Williamsburg, BK). Ava is an Artist Advocate for Healing TREE, a mental health nonprofit dedicated to promoting trauma-focused therapy. Generally regarded as the most promising writer to emerge from her Crown Heights apartment. MFA: UC San Diego '19. BA: Princeton University '15.