Faculty Degree Gethsemane Herron is a poet-playwright, teacher, and screenwriter from Washington, D.C. She has developed work with Ars Nova, The Fire This Time Festival, The Hearth, The Liberation Theater Company, The Playwright’s Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, and WPTheater. She was a 20-22 member of Ars Nova’s Play Group, a 20-22 member of the WP Lab, and a 21-22 Jerome Fellow/22-23 Many Voices Fellow/ 23-24 McKnight Fellow. at the Playwright’s Center. Gethsemane is a winner of the Columbia@Roundabout Reading Series, a winner of the 45th Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. 2022 Recipient of the Helen Merrill Award. Finalist for the Van Lier New Voices Fellowship at the Lark and the Founders Award at New York Stage and Film. She received her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, where she was the Dean’s Fellow. She is a proud member of the Dramatist’s Guild. Gethsemane is currently under commission with Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, and the Drinking Gourd Collective.. She’s enamored with Sailor Moon & other magical girl warriors. She writes for survivors.