Sylvan Oswald

Sylvan Oswald writes plays and texts that explore queer and trans identity through metatheatricality and formal irreverence.

Recent projects include the theatrical essay Trainers (Gate Theatre, London) and the performance text High Winds (Fusebox Festival, Austin and TBA, Portland).

Plays include A Kind of Weather (Diversionary Theatre, San Diego) Pony (About Face Theater, Chicago), Profanity (Undermain Theater, Dallas), and Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb, New York).

Sylvan has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell, Sundance/Ucross, and Yaddo. He is an affiliated artist at Clubbed Thumb and an alum of New Dramatists.

Pony has just been published by Northwestern University Press.