Tim Lord

Tim J. Lord is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced and developed at theaters across the United States, including Through the Sunken Lands at the Kennedy Center and We Declare You a Terrorist at Round House Theatre. Other theaters include The Public Theater (NYC), Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Lark (RIP), Playwrights’ Center, New Harmony Project, Phamaly Theater, Pillsbury House + Theater, and The Working Theater. Tim was the first recipient of the Apothetae-Lark Fellowship for a playwright with a disability; a 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; and a 2017 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. He has been a writer-in-residence at the William Inge Theater Festival and at Merrimack Rep and the Reg E. Cathey Writer-in-Residence at the Orchard Project. Since 2012, he has written 10 plays for the kids of the 52nd St. Project in New York and 2 plays for the Chicago Avenue Project in Minneapolis. Tim’s plays often blur the lines between the fantastic and the everyday, focusing on telling stories of people and communities who are often overlooked on our stages in order to illuminate ignored and underrepresented perspectives. He is married to the director and Producing Artistic Director of the Playwrights’ Center, Nicole A. Watson.