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. In the summer of 2023 was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference as well as an Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow at Lambda Literary’s writing retreat. Recent plays include Is Cry You Cry’n? (Brown University & Clubbed Thumb Showcase), Money Shot (Brown University, 2025 O’Neil NPC Finalist), Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan (ANTfest/Ars Nova), Man Made (2024 O’Neil 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). Dhari is finishing an MFA in Playwriting at Brown in the spring of 2025.

NEWS

A sort of archive of some incredible places and opportunities my work guides me to.

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.