Gloria Oladipo
Playwright, Critic, Writer
Gloria Oladipo is a playwright based in New York (but proudly from Chicago, IL). She writes Black comedies about Black families who are generationally unhappy, who do not know how to love each other, but do the very best they can.
Gloria is a 2023-2025 Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group Fellow. She is a 2025 Velvetpark Writers Fellow. She is the 2024 recipient of the Dramatists Guild Foundation Thom Thomas award. She is a 2022-2023 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow alumnus and a previous Seven Devils New Play Conference resident, with her play The Care and Keeping of Schizophrenia (and Other Demons).
She is a Gingold Group Speaker's Corner Fellow alumnus, with her play I Wanna Kill, Annie G. Gloria’s work has been in residence or developed by New York Stage and Film in Poughkeepsie, New York; the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York, New York; Boston Court Pasadena in Pasadena, California; Workshop Theater in New York, New York; the Fresh Ground Pepper Group, and other institutions.
Gloria is also an award-winning cultural critic and journalist. She is a race and equity reporter for the Guardian, reporting on culture, politics, and more. She is the 2023 recipient of the American Theatre Critics Association's Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism. She is a 2022 National Critics Institute Fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, an opportunity she was selected for via the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). She later taught theatre criticism at KCACTF.
Gloria's work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, and other publications. Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from Cornell University.
