Beth Hyland is a playwright and screenwriter based in Southern California.
Her plays and musicals include SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA, Fires, Ohio, Seagulls, Clearing, Killed a Man (Joking), All-One! The Dr. Bronner’s Play, Red Bowl at the Jeffs, For Annie, and grippy sock vacation.
She is the 2024 recipient of Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and Jay Harris Commission for her play SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA. Her play Fires, Ohio was the 2023 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting.
Her work has been developed regionally in the US and the UK at Goodman Theatre’s New Stages Festival, Steppenwolf LookOut, Know Theatre, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Stephen Joseph Theatre, B Street Theatre, Provincetown Theater, and Actors Theatre of Louisville; in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Hearth; and around Chicago with Jackalope Theatre, First Floor Theater, The Story Theatre, Bramble Theatre, Broken Nose Theatre, The Sound in Association with Joe Swanberg, and others.
She co-founded The Sound, an itinerant Chicago storefront theatre, with artistic director Rebeca Willingham. Her short film Clambake, directed by Sammy Zeisel, was an official selection of the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and the Santa Monica Film Festival.
She is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at UC San Diego under the mentorship of Naomi Iizuka and Deborah Stein. She is represented by Jamie Kaye-Phillips.