ABOUT TRISH
Bio
Trish Cole is a playwright poet who writes about women, gender, rage, and hysteria as resistance. 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).
Trish 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. She lives in southern Maryland where she works as a public high-school librarian.
Her new work is CHEERLEADERS IN PARADISE: A RAVING CLAP-CLAP ON PATRIARCHAL BULLSHIT.