About Me
Originally from Los Angeles, S. Dylan Zwickel is a New York City-based writer and director.
Her plays and musicals have been Finalists or Semifinalists for the Orchard Project, the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, the Jane Chambers Prize, the Princess Grace Award, the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award, the Blue Ink Award, The Terrence McNally New Play Incubator, and the O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference and National Music Theatre Conference.
She is best known for her boutique interactive event company, Ghost Ship Murder Mysteries, and her play The Moss Maidens, which won Best Play and Best Ensemble at the 2023 SheNYC Summer Theater Festival and is now being developed into a feature film.
Dylan holds a BA in Theatre from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She was a member of the 2017 Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the 2022 TedxBroadway Young Professionals Cohort.
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Pronouns: she/her/hers
I work primarily on plays, musicals, and immersive/experiential works that focus on women or girls behaving in ways they’re not “supposed to” and stepping into their power—taking action, pursuing a destiny grander than the one that’s been laid out for them, or fighting for something larger than themselves. Bonus points if it’s highly theatrical, allows the actors to behave in a larger than life, physically virtuosic manner, and/or has strong sociopolitical elements.