Donnetta Lavinia Grays (she/her) (playwright, Where We Stand) is the author of Where We Stand (World Premiere WP Theater/Baltimore Center Stage. Lucille Lortel, Drama League, AUDELCO, and Broadway Black award nominee). Kudzu Calling (World Premiere: Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Last Night and the Night Before (World Premiere, Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Warriors Don’t Cry, Laid to Rest, and The Review or How to Eat Your Opposition. Awards: She is the recipient of The Whiting Award for Drama, Helen Merrill Playwright Award, The National Theater Conference’s Stavis Playwright Award, the Lilly Award, Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award, and the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. Additional Artistic Credits: For television, she has staffed Spectrum’s Manhunt, FX’s Y: The Last Man, served as Executive Story Editor on Joe Vs. Carole for Peacock and as a co-producer on Seconds for AMC. For film, she has penned Otis and Zelma, the upcoming biopic of Otis Redding starring Danielle Deadwyler and John Boyega. Broadway acting credits include The Skin of Our Teeth, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play and Well. Off-Broadway: Where We Stand (WP Theater/Baltimore Centerstage), Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb) O, Earth (The Foundry Theatre), In the Footprint (The Civilians- as an Associate Artist), and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Primary Stages). Film: The Life List, The Book of Henry, Wild Canaries, The English Teacher, and The Wrestler. TV: Recurring roles on New Amsterdam, Happy, Rubicon, Mercy, and Law and Order: SVU. Guest Starring Roles on High Maintenance, The Night Of, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, A Gifted Man, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, and The Sopranos. Ms. Grays proudly hails from Columbia, South Carolina. Connect: https://www.donnettagrays.com/