Jihan Crowther

Jihan Crowther is a TV writer whose credits include The Man in the High Castle, Daisy Jones & The Six, Alan Ball’s Here and Now, and the Barry Jenkins TV adaptation of The Underground Railroad.

 She currently developing a half-hour drama-comedy with Big Beach TV and a one-hour drama with Fair Harbor Productions. Jihan Crowther is also a playwright and essayist. Her plays have been read, produced and developed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New Georges, 52nd Street Project and New York Theatre Workshop in New York; the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival in Scotland; Theatre 503, The Oval Theatre, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, University of London – Goldsmiths College in London; Actors’ Gang, Son of Semele, Moving Arts MADlab Play Development in Los Angeles and Eastern Bloc in Montreal, Quebec. She was a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellow and a former New York Theatre Workshop Emerging Artists Fellow. She’s an alumna of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood Writers Collective and has received two EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commissions. She’s also an alumna of the LA-based Playwrights Union. She’s currently a Fellow at Dorset Theatre Festival and a member of Boston Court Pasadena’s Playwrights’ Group. She has written essays for Jezebel, Esquire, and Hello Giggles.

 She received her MA in Writing for Performance at the University of London – Goldsmiths College and her BA in English & Creative Writing from James Madison University.

Jihan can be found at jihancrowther.com.

Charitable Organization: New York Foundation for the Arts