John Minigan is a recent Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow and winner of Oakland Review’s 2026 Playwriting Prize. Sarai’s Knife won the Firehouse Center’s 2026 Honegger Prize, the 2025 Playwrights Revolution at Sacramento’s Capital Stage, and was developed in the Madison New Works Lab. John’s BroadwayWorld.com Best Play-winning adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow premiered in Boston in 2022 and has been produced in venues around the country since. Out of the Scorpion’s Nest (formerly Queen of Sad Mischance) won the Judith Royer Award for Excellence from The Kennedy Center/ATHE and Gold Prize in the Clauder Competition for New England plays. Noir Hamlet was an EDGE Media Best of Boston selection and a Boston Globe Critics’ Pick. Clara Schumann: Romance Variée, commissioned by Concert Theatre Works, premieres at Tanglewood in 2027. His Breaking the Shakespeare Code is published and licensed by Ghost Light Publications, and his shorter work appears in Best Short Plays 2015-2016 (Applause), in multiple Smith & Kraus Best 10-Minute Play and Best Stage Monologues anthologies, and from other presses. John served as DG Ambassador to the Boston region from 2018 to 2025 and currently teaches at Emerson College.