“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel while I am here.”
Raven Monroe is an actor, dramatist, and screenwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina with a BA from UNC Charlotte and an MFA from New York University. As a Black woman with a love of all things sci-fi and fantasy, she aims to create stories that send Black women and girls on epic adventures. She was a featured playwright on the Red Clay Plays podcast and the February 2021 playwright for the Queen City New Play Initiative. She is currently a features writer for Screen Rant.
Accolades:
“Threads: The Loray Mill Musical” - Playwright, Wanderlust Productions
“Ama & Coltrane, Beware, Beware” - Playwright, Red Clay Plays Podcast
“Love & Justice and Other Fairy Tales” - Queen City New Play Initiative, Matthews Playhouse African American Play Fest
“Unfamous” (TV pilot) - Semifinalist, Outstanding Screenplays; Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay
“Sissy and Gen” (Screenplay) - Quarterfinalist, Emerging Screenwriters