Bella Poynton (she/her) is a playwright, director, actor, and theater scholar. Her creative work has been published with Samuel French (Concord Theatricals) and can be seen in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, The Weirdest Plays of 2020, and WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters. Her plays have been produced and developed at Alleyway Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, The Antaeus Company, 3rd Act Theatre Company, Oklahoma City University, Otherworld Theatre, MadLab Theatre, Theatre Viscera, and the Pittsburg New Works Festival among others. Poynton is a co-chair of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid America Theatre Conference, and the director the Playwrights Wing at First Look Buffalo Theatre Company. New productions include: The AI at Delphi (First Look Buffalo), 20,000 Leagues (Otherworld Theatre), and Prelude to a Kiss (director), at Bellissima Productions. Poynton holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from SUNY Buffalo.