Playwright

Ryn
Stafford

(she/they)

Ryn Stafford is a performer and writer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Informed by her family’s oral tradition, she developed an obsession with story through plays, comic books, slave narrative, novels, and history. She holds a B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University. She has developed her plays at New York Theatre Workshop, Outside In Theatre, The Philosophical Research Society, and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. In addition to writing, she also engages with theater through puppetry. An alum of Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop, she has performed alongside her original puppets internationally. She has held residencies with Pocoapoco arts & cultural organization in Oaxaca, Travelers’ Rest State Park and Open AIR in Montana, and TruArtSpeaks in Saint Paul. She has participated in the Small Axe Project Conference in Trinidad and in her friends’ poetry publications.

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