Jaden Tyler Urso is a playwright who hails from New Jersey. She writes about the weird, the queer, the chronically ill, and the classical. Her work has been shown at Playwrights Downtown, The Emerging Artists Festival, The Tank, and the American Theater of Actors. She has been supported by The Elif Collective/3P (Oven Writers Cohort 2024) and LOVECHILD Theater company. Winner of the Seth Barkas Prize for fiction. Best of the Net nominee for poetry. Finalist: Red Bull Short Play Competition 2024. Semi-finalist: Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2025; Playwrights Center Jerome Fellowship 2025; Seven Devils Play Conference 2025; SHE-NYC Summer Festival 2025. Jaden currently serves as the Literary Director for DTC, a grassroots collective cultivating queer theatre for early-career artists. BFA in Drama: NYU Tisch, Playwrights Horizons. BA in English and Creative Writing: NYU. jtuwrites.com
