Dhari Noel (he/they) is a Queer-Black-Caribbean-Harlemite playwright, performer, and educator. Dhari’s writing often explores the incoherence of race, the failures of gender, and inherited ways of being. As a teacher, he uses storytelling, social justice, and interdisciplinary studies to examine systems of power.

Dhari’s work has been generously supported by several artistic organisations, including: Is Cry You Cry’n? (Brown University & Clubbed Thumb); Money Shot (Brown University, 2025 O’Neill NPC Finalist); Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan (ANTfest @ Ars Nova, Brown University); A.G.P. (2023 Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist); Man Made (2024 O’Neill NPC Semi-Finalist), Spirit Junkie (Cherry Picking/The Wild Project); and Keep The Orange (ECFS).

Dhari performs in many of their pieces and has had the pleasure of collaborating with many dear friends. Recent performances include Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan (ANTfest @ Ars Nova, Brown University); Man Made, Spirit Junkie (Cherry Picking, The Wild Project); Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr); In The Penal Colony (Next Door @NYTW); The Essential Ella Maythorne (Dixon Place); Telegraph Bois (ANTfest @Ars Nova).

In the summer of 2023, he was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow at Lambda Literary’s writing retreat. Dhari’s graduate studies are supported by an Adele Kellenberg Seaver 1949 Fellowship in Creative Writing.

Dhari received a BA in Sociology from Columbia University and will complete an MFA in Playwriting at Brown University in May of 2025.