Biography

WILL BRUMLEY was a 2021-2022 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, where he developed his play Pulling Leather: A Queer Rodeo Fantasia over nine months, culminating in a presentation for The Playwrights Realm’s 2022 Ink’d Festival. The play was also a 2018 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist and part of the 2021 Play Lab at the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference. The Clinic (2019 O’Neill Semi-Finalist) has been performed in 18 benefit readings across the United States throughout 2019-2020, raising over $14,000 for reproductive rights organizations. It was featured in American Theatre Magazine. Other plays include Dollar Store Jesus (2020 O’Neill Semi-Finalist) and Tiny Feminist. Williamsburg! The Musical, written with musicians Brooke Fox and Kurt Gellersted was a 2007 NYC Fringe Overall Excellence Award winner and called “an absolute hit” (WFUV).

Will’s work has been developed in writing groups at The Playwrights Realm (2022-2023), Bushwick Starr (2021), Primary Stages’ ESPA (2011-2020), and The Vineyard Theatre (2014) in New York and Theatre 503, Soho Theatre, and Squint Theatre in London. He has taken masterclasses with Alice Birch, Anna Jordan, Simon Stone, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Roy Williams, among others. He is currently studying fiction at Bard College, as part of the 2025 Written Arts class.