Bella Poynton (she/her) is a playwright, director, actor, and theater scholar. Her creative work has been published with Samuel French at 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 scholarly work has been published in Comparative Drama, Theatre/Practice, Global Performance Studies, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her plays have been produced and developed at Alleyway Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, 3rd Act Theatre Company, Oklahoma City University, Otherworld Theatre, Theatre Viscera, and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, among many others. Poynton is a co-chair of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid- America Theatre Conference, and the director of the Playwrights Wing at First Look Buffalo Theatre Company. Upcoming projects: The AI at Delphi (First Look Buffalo), 20,000 Leagues (Otherworld Theatre), Prelude to a Kiss (Director, Bellissima). MFA, Iowa Playwrights Workshop; PhD, SUNY Buffalo.