Ali Viterbi is a playwright, television writer, and educator. Her play In Every Generation received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in 2022 and its west coast premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in 2023. Her work has been developed and/or commissioned by Geffen Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, National New Play Network, Round House Theatre, San Diego REP, Carthage College, HERE Arts Center, and The Barrow Group, among others.
She won the 2019 National Jewish Playwriting Contest and has developed projects in TV. She was a member of the Geffen Playhouse Writers' Room and was the associate artistic director of the annual Lipinsky San Diego Jewish Arts Festival. Viterbi received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. in playwriting from UC San Diego.
At MacDowell, Viterbi wrote a first draft of a new play called Linguicide about civic duty, the death of languages, and the precarity of Jewish identity. She also began work on another play about infertility amongst both the Jewish biblical matriarchs and contemporary Jewish women.
Portrait by David Noles
