Ilana Turner
L.A. Stage Raw Playwriting award nominee for award-winning O Réjane (2014). Recipient of Max K. Lerner Fellowship for workshop, staged readings of Ollie & D at Inkwell Theater (2019). Member The Vagrancy writers’ program (2018-19); workshop and staged reading for resulting play Slur in Blossoming Festival (2019). Commission for new show set to premiere in Sweden (2020). Monologue Sugar Coat It published in LGBTQ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny (Applause Books). Coordinating Producer for Designing Hedwig on the Criterion Collection Special Edition of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” (2019). Final round of consideration for 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab for one-hour pilot Choke Point, co-written with Adam Scott Epstein; the project is currently repped by OAZ in Toronto. 2019 Final Draft Big Break Semi Finalist and Tracking Board Launch Pad Top 75 for one-hour pilot Government Girls, also co-written with Epstein. Dramaturge for Circle X Theatre’s production of punkplay (2019). BA in theater and dance from Hampshire College. Member SAG, AEA, Dramatists Guild, and the Playwrights Center.
