Renae smiling in front of houses in Bed-Stuy.

Renae Jarrett is a playwright living in Brooklyn. Her play Daphne was produced by Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 in the Autumn of 2023. She is a member of EST/Youngblood and a 2022 MacDowell/National Endowment of the Arts Fellow. She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers’ Group 2021–22 and graduated from UT Austin's MFA Playwriting program in 2021.

In addition to writing plays, she has dabbled in arts criticism, gardening, and over-analyzing reality television with anyone who will listen. Her theatre heroes are Adrienne Kennedy, Wallace Shawn, and Caryl Churchill.

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