D.W. Gregory’s
plays frequently explore political issues through a personal lens and with a
comedic twist. The New York Times called her “a playwright with a
talent to enlighten and provoke” for her most-produced work, Radium
Girls, about the famous case of industrial poisoning. Other plays include Memoirs
of a Forgotten Man, a National New Play Network rolling world premiere
(Contemporary American Theater Festival, Shadowland Stages, New Jersey Repertory
Company); Molumby’s Million (Iron Age Theatre), nominated for a
Barrymore Award by Theatre Philadelphia; A Thing of Beauty, winner of
the Southeastern Theatre Conference’s 2023 Charles M. Getchell New Play Award; The
Good Daughter and October 1962 (New Jersey Repertory Company);
and a new musical comedy, The Yellow Stocking Play, with composer Steven
M. Alper and lyricist Sarah Knapp. Her plays have been developed through the
support of AATE, the National New Play Network (NNPN), the Playwrights’ Center,
the Maryland State Arts Council, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the HBMG
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A member of the Dramatists
Guild, Gregory is an affiliated writer with the Playwrights’ Center in
Minneapolis and an affiliated artist with NNPN. Gregory also writes for youth
theatre (Salvation Road and Penny Candy) and makes occasional
appearances as a teaching artist. For five years in a row, Dramatics magazine named
Radium Girls among the 10 Most-Produced Plays in American High-School
Theatre.
