Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Celine Song

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016

Celine Song's play Endlings (made at MacDowell) received its world premiere in 2019 at American Repertory Theater, and had its New York premiere in 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop. It was selected for the 2018 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and it was placed on the 2017 Kilroys list.

Song was a member of the Public Theater’s 2016-2017 Emerging Writers Group, Ars Nova’s 2014-2015 Play Group, and The Orchard Project's inaugural NYC Greenhouse 2018. She was a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow from 2017-2018, a 2014 & 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference Playwright, and she was a 2017 semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship. Her play Tom & Eliza was a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation's 2016 Relentless Award.

Song has been awarded residencies, fellowships, and commissions from MTC/Sloan, Sundance, Millay Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia. Celine is a staff writer on Amazon's “The Wheel of Time,” and she is developing a project for television with Diablo Cody and Beth Behrs. Her directorial film debut Past Lives premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

Endlings (Play)

Studios

Heyward

Celine Song worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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