playwright &
screenwriter

AVA GEYER is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. She writes about what happens when our healing gets caught up in the forcefield of the marketplace. She is an Audible Emerging Writer and recent alum of EST/Youngblood. Her work has been developed with SPACE on Ryder Farm, La Jolla Playhouse, Take Ten and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Plays include Death Cleaning (up-coming development with White Horse Theater '25), Monster (finalist, Alliance/Kendeda Award '19), B-Storm (published by Concord Theatricals), Big Splash (Theater Masters' Visionary Award '20)  and Power Nap (EST's Bloodworks Reading Series '24). Ava is an Artist Advocate for Healing TREE, a mental health nonprofit promoting access to trauma-informed therapy. MFA: UC San Diego '19. BA: Princeton University '15.