Playwright | Actor | Educator

Dhari Noel is a Queer Black Caribbean Harlemite artist whose work explores the incoherence of race, failures of gender, and inherited performances. Dhari was a 2025 semi-finalist for the Page 73 Fellowship and is a member of the 2026 Page 73 writers group. Recent plays include Is Cry You Cry’n? (Brown University & Clubbed Thumb Showcase), Money Shot (Brown University, 2025 O’Neill NPC Finalist), Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan (ANTfest/Ars Nova), Man Made (2024 O’Neill NPC Semi-Finalist), and Spirit Junkie (Cherry Picking, The Wild Project). Recent performances include Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr) and In the Penal Colony (Next Door at NYTW, The Tank). Additional honors include being a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow at Lambda Literary. Dhari has a BA in Sociology from Columbia University and an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.

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NEWS

…a little archive of little landmarks…

WINTER 2025/2026

  • Dramatic Question Theater’s “Classics In Color” workshop

  • Semi-Finalist for P73’s Playwriting Fellowship

  • Part of Page 73’s Writers Group

SPRING 2025:

  • Thursday, May 1st at 4pm, a reading of Is Cry You Cry’n?, directed by Raz Golden, will be showcased by Clubbed Thumb in partnership with Brown University’s MFA Playwriting program. Ticket Info here!

  • Money Shot is recognized as a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference!

  • Is Cry You Cry’n?, directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps, has a Thesis Workshop Production as part of Brown University’s Writing Is Live Festival. Ticket Info here!

SUMMER 2024:

  • I returned to the Sewanee Writers conference, working with Nathan Alan Davis and Liliana Padilla

SPRING 2024:

  • Money Shot, directed by Josie Miller, has a staged reading at Brown University’s Writing Is Live Festival.

  • Man Made is recognized as a semi-finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference!

SUMMER 2023:

  • I will be an Emerging LGBTQ+ Voices Fellow at Lambda Literary’s Writng Retreat. Workshop Leader: Victor I. Cazares

  • I will be a Tennessee Williams scholar this July at Sewanee Writers Conference. Workshop Leaders: David Adjmi & Talene Monahan

  • Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan is at ANTFest @ Ars Nova!!! Thursday, June 15th at 7 pm. Get tickets here: ANTFest Tickets.

  • A.G.P. was a finalist for The Bushwick Starr Reading Series!

WINTER 2022/2023:

  • Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan performed at Brown University’s Writing Is Live festival.

  • A.G.P. was a finalist for the Bushwick Starr Reading Series.

FALL 2022:

  • I moved to Providence and started my first year as an MFA at Brown University!

SUMMER 2022:

  • Exorcism for the DEI Practitioner was performed at this year’s Cherry Picking Festival. I also participated as an actor in several of the pieces this year.

  • Man Made was developed in a week-long residency with public performances at The Wild Project. The residency/performance was supported by the Cherry Picking producing team.