Ren D Santiago

Ren Dara Santiago (they/them) is a Fili-Rican storyteller from Yonkers and Harlem. Awards include the Dramatist Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award, TOW Foundation Fellowship, MCC Alumni Award, and the inaugural recipient of Rising Phoenix Rep’s Cornelia Street American Playwriting Award. Plays include The Siblings Play (Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Something in the Balete Tree (Ground Floor Summer Lab at Berkeley Rep, Winner: Lark Play Development Center’s Playwright’s Week, Finalist: National Playwright’s Conference); Subliminal; I’ll Write You Down in Brick & Mortar; Gods Play; Battle. Experimental, Musical and Immersive works include What Thaws or Will Thaw; Ghosts in the Sky; Building Models; As Hard as You Can; In the Shit; Same Shadow; Where We At; Love & Animation. Ren created and curated the MTA Radio Plays, was the head writer for See You In Your Nightmares, staff-writer for Let The Right One In and wrote the short film The Knock Shadow. Ren is Core Faculty at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and a member of Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab.