Playwright

Selina
Fillinger

(she/her)

Selina Fillinger is an LA-based writer and performer. Her plays include The Collapse; Something Clean; Faceless; and The Armor Plays: Cinched/Strapped. In 2022, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive debuted on Broadway, earning three Tony Award nominations. Her plays have been developed at Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, McCarter Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Northlight Theatre. She’s currently commissioned at South Coast Repertory and Roundabout. She was a Hawthornden Fellow and a resident of McCarter’s Sallie B. Goodman Artists’ Retreat; Something Clean is the recipient of the 2019 Laurents/Hatcher Award and Cinched/Strapped received the 2019 Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Selina wrote for the third season of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show; she’s developing a feature with Chernin Entertainment/Netflix, and a pilot with Hunting Lane/Hulu.