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CALAMITY WEST 

THOUGHTS ON
CALAMITY'S WORK

"West is a colossal Chicago talent with a formidable intellect..."

- Chicago Tribune

“…an essential Chicago-style voice…”

-  Chicago Tribune

“Calamity West is, without question, a name to watch.”

- Chicago Tribune

“Calamity West manages to hook you in and get you comfortable

only to take you places no one wants to see clearly.”

-  Third Coast

“West writes like a vise, slowly tightening the screws

until her characters are trapped and her audience is rapt.”

- Windy City Times

“West’s writing really hits the zeitgeist. She’s an important voice in the world...”

- PerformInk

“West, a Chicago writer with an ebullient sense of theatricality, is the real deal..."  
- Chicago Tribune

 “…a leading aesthetic innovator of storefront realism as well as a

tough-as-nails moralist.”

- Chicago Reader

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES 

Dominic Orlando Playwriting Award

 Nominated - National

 November 2023

Kilroy List Citation In The Canyon

 National

 October 2023

Platform Award

Nominated - Chicago

 July 2023

The Lortel Theatre - Alcove at The Lortel

Awardee - National

 May 2023

The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute

Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission

Awardee - National

May 2022

 

NFMLA - Best Screenplay

Nominated - Cool For Five Seconds

Los Angeles

February 2021

 

Kilroy List Citation - Give It All Back

 National

 June 2015

 

Kilroy List Honorable Mention - The Peacock

 National

 June 2015

 

3Arts Chicago Theatre

Awardee  - $25,000 Prize - Chicago

 October 2014

- selected -

Calamity West is an award-winning playwright whose work has been developed at
The Lortel, Primary Stages, The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute,
Williamstown Theatre Festival, Roundabout Underground, and The Goodman to name a few.

In addition to her writing career, Calamity teaches playwriting at the University of Chicago, Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts, and literature at her alma mater of
Webster University.  

Through 2026 Calamity West will be developing her work at Primary Stages as a member of
the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group where she has (so far) written
 FEAST! and Sgt. Hank Cole’s Drama Club of Algona.

West is represented by CAA and managed by Curate.  

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CONTACT

CAA

Theatre

Di Glazer - diana.glazer@caa.com

Television and Film 

Jiah Shin - jiah.shinasst@caa.com

CURATE 

Television and Film 

Britton Rizzo - britton@thisiscurate.com

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