Colleen Nicole O'Doherty
Colleen O'Doherty is a Chicago-based writer and teacher. She has her MFA in play and screenwriting from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her Zoom-based play, Missing Ingredient was selected for NYC's Project Y Theatre Company's Zoom series and was released in November 2020. It was also nominated for best short in the first annual Young-Howze Theatre Awards, February 2021. In June 2023, she was commissioned by Project Y to write for the Women In Theater Festival. Her full-length, Stripped, was a 2022 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2nd Rounder, a quarterfinalist for ScreenCraft's 2018-19 stage play competition and a 2018 Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women Finalist. It was part of TheatreMidwest's Fresh Produce Concert Reading Series in October 2020 in Des Moines, IA and a 2020 semi-finalist for UP Theater’s Renewal Reading Series in NYC. Her screenplay Power Surge was a 2022 quarter-finalist for the ISA Table Read My Screenplay genre competition and a semi-finalist for the Script2Comic competition. Her new play about Long COVID, Heavier Than Water had a public reading at Chicago Dramatists for the Telling Humans festival in December 2023.