Stephanie Alison Walker is an internationally-acclaimed, award-winning playwright known for personalizing the political, infusing humor in darkness and exploring female resilience. She won the 2020 Primus Prize for THE MADRES, a play about the mothers of the disappeared in Argentina, and the Ashland New Plays Festival for THE ABUELAS, which premiered at Teatro Vista and was a Chicago Tribune Critic’s pick. Her play FRIENDS WITH GUNS, which tackles liberals and guns, was an O’Neill Finalist and a L.A. Times Critics Choice. Her latest work, SOPHIA HAYDEN DESERVES BETTER, tells the story of Sophia Hayden, the architect of the Woman’s Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Her plays have been produced in the U.S. and abroad, and her short works have been anthologized by Smith & Kraus. Her full-lengths are published by Broadway Publishing, Inc. In addition to writing, she is adapting FRIENDS WITH GUNS and THE ABUELAS as features and developing a TV show with Chernin Entertainment while raising two sons and working in real estate. She is a member of