Will Arbery is a playwright and filmmaker from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters.

Plays: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons) // Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons) // Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (The New Group) // Plano (Clubbed Thumb) //  Wheelchair (3 Hole Press) // You Hateful Things (NYTW Dartmouth Residency). He's currently under commission from MTC, Adventureland, and the Met Opera. 

Member/alum: New Dramatists, P73's I-73, EST/Youngblood, The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group, Colt Coeur.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), WGA Award for Best Episodic Drama ("Living+," Succession), Whiting Award for Drama, New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Tow Foundation Grant, and an Edes Prize for Emerging Artists. 

TV/Film: Writer and Producer "Succession" (HBO). 

Features/interviews/podcasts: The New York Times, The Paris Review (for Whiting Award), The Paris Review (for Plano), Vox, American Theatre, Brooklyn Rail, NPR, Vanity Fair, On Point, Upstage Left, Know Your Enemy, MUSEUM, The Subtext, America Magazine, HowlRound, Dallas Morning News, Wyoming Public Media, The Brian Lehrer Show, and The Wicked Stage. While in grad school, he was named one of Variety’s “110 Students to Watch.”

Dance work: Steppenwolf, Pioneer Works, The Watermill Center, and MCA Chicago, Featured on Desus & Mero and Creators Project. 

Education: ​​MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage from Northwestern University. BA in English & Drama from Kenyon College.