Bronwen Carson
writer | director

Bronwen Carson writer | director Bronwen Carson writer | director Bronwen Carson writer | director

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writer | director

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Broadway World - What's On

Broadway World - What's On 

Bronwen Carson's The Mansion of Many Apartments opens at Burning Coal Theatre

6/11 through 6/28

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The Mansion of Many Apartments

a new play

written and directed by Bronwen Carson

Burning Coal Theatre

June 2025


Has Anyone Seen Bill?

Has Anyone Seen Bill?

Has Anyone Seen Bill?

Writer-Director

Independent short

watch the trailer

Magpie news!

U.S. Premiere - Red Silk

Has Anyone Seen Bill?

Barnes and Noble 

Reading and Book Signing Event 

June 15, 2024 1-3 pm

Nominations

National Book Award

PEN/Hemingway Award

National Book Critics Circle Award

U.S. Premiere - Red Silk

U.S. Premiere - Red Silk

U.S. Premiere - Red Silk

Director

Howland Center, NY

March 2024

Presented by Hit House Creative 


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writing

directing

We're in the midst of a massive transition- globally, tribally, individually. Transitional realms are uncertain, but hold immense promise. If we listen and trust what we don't yet understand, in each other and ourselves, these liminal thresholds can guide us through difficult metamorphosis into a communal space of kindness, respect, and celebration of our diversities as much as our similarities. 


I strive to create works that invite curiosity so we can find each other in the fog of anger and blame. Curiosity is magical. It allows maybe...and possibility...and hope. 


Professional Reel

featured work

Red Silk

Howland Cultural Center 

Beacon, NY - March 2024

U.S. Premiere , Produced by Hit House Creative 

additional productions stills soon 


Has Anyone Seen Bill

Has Anyone Seen Bill 

30 minute short narrative film delving into the complexities and misperceptions around housing insecurity, through Bill, a middle aged good guy who, after one bad decision, sinks further and further into societal invisibility.


Magpie

Feature Screenplay adaptation 

 

Magpie explores appropriation and masking as the means through which an undiagnosed autistic woman builds a functional identity, burying her true one in the process. Maggie is difficult, odd, and soulful-in search of not only answers to a childhood mystery but an authenticity she has no idea how to recognize.

ACCORD(ing)

a sensorially immersive world of performance art, large scale puppetry, installations and soundscapes to examine how the human mind gathers, processes and decides truths.


co-created and produced with TÉA Artistry

49th Street and Other Stories

a mini documentary following the development of a full length movement play about an isolated young woman trying to build a life for herself in New York City. 


MMDG / Ailey Center workshop footage

Tunnels Above Ground

a short film about disconnection and loss. 

Executive Produced by Duke Films

premiered at OIFF 2017 

words

Magpie - novel (release March 2023 - Unleash Press)

Now available at Barnes and Noble, Unleash Press, and Amazon

Recipient of the 2022 Unleash Press Book Prize

Recipient of the 2021 Rona Jaffe Foundation Breadloaf Writers Conference Scholar Award

Nominated for the 2023 National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway AWard, and the National Book Critics Circle Award


Unknown and unattached, Maggie Morris moves through her days as a polished collection of patterns. Her only honest relationship is with the dormant tree outside her Brooklyn loft window. When she unexpectedly runs into her childhood best friend, Dana, a Tsalagi girl who suddenly disappeared the summer they turned nine, Dana’s cryptic references about the events surrounding her disappearance launches Maggie down a rabbit hole not only about that long ago summer, but about who she’s become and why. 


Magpie explores appropriation and masking as the means through which an undiagnosed autistic woman builds a functional identity, burying her true one in the process. Maggie is difficult, odd, and soulful—in search of not only answers to a childhood mystery, but an authenticity she has no idea how to recognize.


2023 Midwest Book Review -   

Paths divided by circumstance and life can sometimes cross again, but those linked by memory have since become someone else as time passes -- especially when a death and a disappearance introduced an estrangement that has lasted for decades. In Magpie, these two now-disparate former friends are thrown back together in an unexpected, unusual manner that introduces past memories and conundrums into present-day experiences. The circumstances involving a mother's death, a Tsalagi woman who also vanished from Maggie's childhood, and a mystery that threatens to raise long-repressed memories about what really happened make for a vivid read.


For some readers, this novel will stir unpleasant memories of choices towards peace over adventure; predictability over excitement. As Maggie moves into many revelations, so readers will find their hearts tugged and challenged by her self-discoveries and the truth that lies at the center of her adult choices.

Readers and libraries looking for novels about friendship, mystery, growth, and "Being part of the wild things that surround me...Not separate. Part of something bigger." will find Maggie a powerful story. It ideally will reach a wide audience with its landscapes of seasonal and relationship transformations.


"The wry, idiosyncratic, yet deeply vulnerable voice Carson elevates in Magpie, speaks for so many of us" - Laura Cronk, author of Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice


"A tour de force of narrative consciousness in the tradition of Jonathan Lethem,  Magpie immerses the reader in a compelling mystery and social critique."

- Jamie Price, Ph.D., author of The Call 

 

O.T.P. (TV series in development)

Sundance Co//ab

Liminal Starling

Feature film in development in partnership with LaWanda Hopkins. 

Sundance Co//ab

a savage, simple

"Truth like death, kills what came before."

Full length play inspired by Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero.

 

(Finalist, Doug & Victoria Ross Foundation - Playwriting Award)

You Can't Get to Heaven in a Miniskirt

Hybrid physical theatre play about gender shaming and purity hazing of young females in church youth groups.

*Act I draft published in MeetingHouse Literary Journal (Dec. 2020) 

Interior, Brooklyn

One act play

Immersive physical theatre

Scotomas

Full length play in development 

Perception, collective agreements, and how we define "mental health"

Bio

selected press & interviews


Meetinghouse Literary Journal


WRAL Interview - Bronwen Carson, ACCORD(ing)


Lights Up with Wayne Leonard - June 2020


Burning Coal Interview - March 2020 


Broadway World - Credits 


Works by Women NYC - Interview


Broadway World Interview by Mary Callahan


Theatre Online - Off Broadway reviews - Jack's Back


Meet the Creative Team 


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