Playwright

James Anthony
Tyler

(he/him)

James Anthony Tyler is the recipient of the 3rd Annual Horton Foote Playwriting Award and an inaugural playwright to receive a commission from Audible. He was also recently The Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight Theater Artist Fellow and a playwright participant in the 2024 Durango PlayFest. His plays include Into the Side of a Hill (Flint Repertory Theatre), Artney Jackson (world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2018 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award), Some Old Black Man (Berkshire Playwrights Lab at Saint James Place and 59E59 Theaters), and Dolphins and Sharks (LAByrinth Theater Company and Finborough Theatre in London). He has an M.F.A. in Film from Howard University and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University. He is also a graduate of The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. He was the Staff Writer for the OWN Network show Cherish the Day and was most recently in the writers’ room for a new Apple TV+ drama series starring an Academy Award–winning actress. Upcoming: The Drop Off, world premiere production at New Jersey Repertory Company in 2025.