SHAYAN LOTFI (Playwright) is the current Tow Playwright-in-Residence at the Atlantic Theater and his play What Became of Us was awarded a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation. He is a member playwright at New Dramatists, and is an alum of The Working Farm Writers’ Group at SPACE on Ryder Farm and Page 73’s I-73 Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Horton Foote Award from the Dramatists Guild, a MacDowell Fellowship, and is under commission from the Atlantic Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and South Coast Repertory. In addition to writing, he also works as an urban planning consultant. He holds degrees from New York University, the London School of Economics, and the University of British Columbia.
