Hilary Bettis
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Hilary Bettis is a playwright, a producer, and a writer.


Life and career

She won the 2019 Writers Guild of America Award, and was nominated in 2018, for her work on the Emmy and Golden Globe winning series ''
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'' on FX, which she wrote on for the final two seasons. Her play, ''72 miles to go...'' was a 2019 finalist for the prestigious Blackburn Prize, and will be produced Off-Broadway by
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Winter 2020 She is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellowship at
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. Bettis has received fellowships, workshops, and residencies at the Roundabout,
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All New Festival, Orlando Shakes PlayFest, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2050 Fellow at
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, John N. Wall Fellow at
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, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Writer-In-Residence at Cape Cod Theatre Project,
La Jolla Playhouse La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. History La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. In 1983, it was revived under ...
,
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Fellow, Playwrights' Week at The Lark, NNPN's National Showcase of New Plays, Audrey Residency at New Georges, Two River Theater, Great Plains Theatre Conference, WildWind Lab at Texas Tech, The Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Workshop, and a Sloan/EST Commission. She was also commissioned by
Miami New Drama Miami New Drama is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit professional theater company located in Miami Beach, Florida, Miami Beach, Florida, founded in 2014. Since October 2016 it has been the resident theater company and operator of the historic Col ...
to write ''Queen of Basel'', which ran at the
Colony Theatre The Colony Theatre is a performing arts venue located on Lincoln Road in Miami, Florida. The theatre first opened as a Paramount Pictures movie house in 1935 with a capacity to sit 1,200 people. From the 1950s - 1990s, it functioned back and forth ...
from April 14, 2018 - May 6, 2018. She has had plays recognized by The Kilroys every year since its inception. She has been a Runner-Up for the Alliance Theatre's Kendeda Award, Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition, American Blues Theater's Blue Ink Award, New America Fellowship, and the Leah Ryan Prize. Bettis is a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theater, a Usual Suspect at NYTW, an Affiliated Artist at New Georges, The Kilroys, and a member of the WGA. As a screenwriter, Bettis has written and produced three short films. ''B'Hurst'' and ''The Iron Warehouse'' have screened at multiple film festivals across the globe. ''Amarillo By Morning'', her directorial debut, is currently in post-production. She has developed and sold multiple original TV shows, and is currently developing a project at FX with Propgate, and AMC. And she is an alumna of the prestigious
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Episodic TV Lab. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, actor Bobby Moreno Her grandfather was of Mexican descent.


Written works


Full-length plays


Short plays


Screenplays


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