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Noelle Viñas is an award-winning playwright, TV writer and educator from Springfield, Virginia, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Her work has been developed or while in residence as a member of the Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, New York Stage and Film, Tofte Lake Center, Playwrights Foundation, the Civilians R&D Group, NYC Latinx Playwrights Circle and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her play DERECHO had a world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in 2024. Other productions include collaborations with Shotgun Players, Imagination Stage, Weston Playhouse and Colt Coeur, where she is currently under commission. Other commissions: Cóndor (o, no es dictadura) for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in D.C.; I Said Evolution for IAMA Theatre in Los Angeles. Her TV work includes staffing on Mrs. Davis. She is an adjunct professor in Columbia’s MFA program. Her production company, Goblin Brain Productions, creates and invests in works that delight in the weird and unexpected — as well as examining language and belonging as tools of power. B.A. Emerson College; M.F.A. Brooklyn College.