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PLAYWRIGHT’S BIO
Raffi Donatich is a writer and performer. Her feature screenplay Poetic License recently wrapped production with Maude Apatow directing. Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman and Leslie Mann star. She is currently staffed on LuckyChap and Fake Empire’s Sterling Point, created by Megan Park for Amazon. She is also developing a TV series entitled Sex Act with Jeremy O. Harris and Lena Dunham producing under her Good Thing Going banner. Previously, she worked on Jeremy O. Harris’ plays Slave Play (NYTW, Broadway) and Daddy (Almeida). In 2020, she was awarded Yale University’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship for poetry.
A BIT ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
When did you start writing plays? If you had a moment where you realized you wanted to write, what was it?
The first play I wrote was in high school, but I was definitely making up characters and filming scenes on my Flip video camera in elementary school. I think the moment I knew I wanted to write plays was when I saw an undergraduate production of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land when I was in high school.
How did you come to write your OOB play? Was there a particular inspiration behind its creation? How has it developed?
I had a written a poem with a bunch of Google searches, and I thought it would be fun to structure a play around that device. I wanted to dramatize how the loneliness of an internet spiral feels.
What/who are some of the major influences on your writing?
Lena Dunham, Annie Baker, Paula Vogel, Sarah Ruhl.
What’s one fact someone would never guess about you?
My middle name is “Sweet.”
What are some of your favorite plays?
Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
Fefu and her Friends by María Irene Fornés
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
The Maids by Jean Genet
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