Director
Marissa Joyce Stamps is a Black, Haitian-American NYC-born and based writer, director, actor, and educator who creates vortexes that center, celebrate and amplify Black folks through an Afrosurrealist lens, often in dialogue with kinetics and landscape dramaturgy. She was the recipient of the 2023 Princess Grace Playwriting Award/New Dramatists Residency. She is a member of Lucille Lortel’s Alcove, Roundabout’s Directors Group (Cohort 6), The New Georges Jam, EST/Youngblood, and TAG at The Tank; she was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers Group, a Finalist for The National Black Theatre’s I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency, and a Mercury Store Lead Artist. Select playwriting work: BEING UP IN HERE… (Princess Grace Winner, Exponential Festival, Brick Aux), LETICHE… (O’Neill NPC Finalist, National Black Theatre Special Project, Bushwick Starr SRS), TWISTED JUNIPER… (O’Neill NPC Finalist; Chautauqua Theater Company’s New Play Workshop; Workshop Theater’s Fall Intensive), BLUE FIRE… (Exponential Festival; Orchard Project’s Performance Lab), ROLLBACK (Clubbed Thumb’s ECWG), DOUBLE COLUMN (SFX Festival), and DEADBODYDEADBODYDEADBODY (Ars Nova ANT Fest). Marissa has directed and assistant directed the development of new work of playwrights and of herself through productions and workshops with The National Black Theatre, The Vineyard, BAM, Brown University, New Dramatists, Exponential Festival, Mercury Store, Conch Shell Productions, The Brick, SFX Festival, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective, NYU/Tisch, and more. Marissa has also collaborated with The Public Theater, 24 Hour Plays, Moxie Arts, The Fire This Time Festival, 48 Hours… in Harlem, Dixon Place, Irondale, The Anthropologists, New Ohio Theatre, Keen Company, Wild Project, BUFU, and more. MFA Playwriting: Brooklyn College. https://www.marissajoycestamps.com/