Calamity West is an award-winning playwright whose work has been presented at The Lortel, Primary Stages, The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Roundabout Underground, The Goodman, and Jackalope Theatre – to name a few. Through 2026 Calamity West will be developing her work at Primary Stages as a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group where she has (so far) written FEAST! - and - Sgt. Hank Cole’s Drama Club of Algona. West is also working on her newest play Inside the World of Somewhere Else, commissioned by Red Yes Studio in New York City. Calamity teaches playwriting at the University of Chicago, Einhorn School of the Performing Arts in New York, and literature at her alma mater of Webster University. For more information on Calamity and her work please visit calamitywest.com where you can also subscribe to her monthly newsletter.