Playwright

Trish Cole is a playwright poet whose work explores the intersection of social construct, gender, identity, resistance, and resiliency. Her plays include BUTTERFLY (2024 O'Neill semi-finalist),  AMERICAN DREAM (2023 O'Neill semi-finalist, PARADISE (2023 Maryland Community Theatre Festival Outstanding Production and Original Script), LIFE ON MARS (EstroGenius), WOMAN REVISED (Maryland Community Theatre Festival Outstanding Production), BUTTERFLY in ONE ACT (Maryland Community Theatre Festival Excellence in Original Script), WHO'S AFRAID OF A HOT TIN ROOF (Watermelon Festival Outstanding Production), and FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN OSPREY (Samuel French and Maryland Community Theatre Festival Excellence in Original Script). Trish is a Samuel French finalist (WITCHHUNT), a Bakeless Literary Prize finalist (THE LOVE PARADE), and is the 2023 recipient of The Cliff Smith Award for Excellence in Directing (PARADISE). She earned her M.A. in Sociocultural Feminist Criticism from the University of Northern Colorado and a post-graduate certification in Library Media from the Notre Dame of Maryland University.

Trish live in southern Maryland where she works as a public high-school librarian.