Cori Thomas is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and author of I Cried To Dream Again. Her plays include, LOCKDOWN; When January Feels Like Summer, Citizens Market, and Liberian Trilogy. Her plays have been produced and developed at, Rattlestick Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Page 73, Women’s Project; City Theater Co. Pittsburgh; The Goodman Theater; and more. She has won the American Theater Critics Osborn Award for Best New Play; Edgerton Foundation Prize; and is a two-time Theodore Ward Prize winner.
Cori is a New Dramatists Resident, the Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Women’s Project Theater, and a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists. She has been awarded fellowships at O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Sundance Theater Lab, MacDowell Colony, Bogliasco, and Baryshnikov Arts Center. She has written an original screenplay about Nelson Mandela for HBO Films and Tribeca Productions, has developed a TV series with JuVee Productions, and also a Podcast series with Audible.
Cori is a volunteer with the violence prevention program No More Tears at San Quentin State Prison, and cofounded Pa’s Hat Foundation a 501(c)3 devoted to educating former child soldiers in Liberia, West Africa. She is on the board of directors of New Dramatists, Pa’s Hat Foundation, and No More TearsSQ.