Azure D. Osborne-Lee (he/they) is a multi-award-winning Black queer & trans theatre maker and screenwriter from south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Azure holds an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice (2011) from Royal Central School of Speech & Drama as well as an MA in Women’s & Gender Studies (2008) and a BA in English & Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin (2005).

Azure’s full-length play “Crooked Parts” was published in The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, and produced as part of Obsidian Theatre Festival in Detroit, MI in June 2024.

Azure’s full-length play “Mirrors” received its world premiere, produced by Parity Productions, at Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop in spring 2020. Unfortunately, this production closed early due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Mirrors" is now available for purchase through NoPassport Press. 

Azure’s new play “Red Rainbow," a 2022 National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, received a production at Mt. Holyoke College in spring 2022 and at Tufts University in spring 2023.

2023/2024 Alcove at the Lucille Lortel Theatre Commission Recipient, Still Standing Artist-in-Residence @StonehengeNYC, recipient of Waterwell New Works Lab’s 2021 Commission, Kilroys List 2020 playwright, recipient of Parity Productions’ 2018 Annual Commission, Winner of Downtown Urban Arts Festival’s 2018 Best Play Award, and the 2015 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest.

Finalist for the 2023 Dramatists Guild Catalyst Fellowship, 2023 NY Independent Theatre Awards' Artistic Achievement Award, 2023 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, 2022 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Theatre Viscera’s 2022 and 2020 Queer Playwright’s Contest, VanguardRep’s 2019 Summer Production; Semi-finalist for the 2024 and 2022 National Playwrights Conference, the 2024 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, the 2021 Doric Wilson Award, and the 2019 Burman New Play Award.

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