Tim
J. Lord is an
award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced and developed at theatres
across the United States. Lord’s plays are epic in scope but intimate in scale;
they blur the lines between the fantastic and the everyday and focus on telling
stories of communities that are overlooked on our stages. These include We
declare you a terrorist … , which premiered at Round House Theatre, and Through
the Sunken Lands, an original musical created with composer Avi Amon, at The
Kennedy Center. Lord’s plays have been produced at theatres such as The Public
Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Lark, The New Harmony Project,
Pillsbury House + Theatre, The 52nd Street Project and the Working Theater,
among others. Lord was the first recipient of the Apothetae and Lark Playwriting
Fellowship for a playwright with a disability. He also received the 2023
Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the
2017 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. He has been
a writer-in-residence at the William Inge Theatre Festival and was the Reg E.
Cathey Writer-in-Residence at the Orchard Project in 2019. He studied with
Paula Vogel and is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego. Lord
is married to Nicole A. Watson, the director and producing artistic director of
the Playwrights’ Center.
