About

Tyler English-Beckwith is a playwright, filmmaker, and actress originally from Dallas, TX, and currently based in New York, NY. She is the recipient of the 2020 Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers, and the recipient of the 2018 Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Play Prize. Tyler is also a member of the 2020-2021 Page 73 writers group Interstate 73. Her plays include: Mingus (2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Play Conference Finalist), Maya and Rivers (2020 Fire This Time Festival), Bitch (Development: Page 73’s Interstate 73), and TWENTYEIGHT (The Vortex, Austin, TX). Tyler was a staff writer on season 7 of Outlander on Starz, and she is currently developing several onscreen projects with Amazon Studios, Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap, Rachel Brosnahan’s Scrap Paper Pictures, and Marsai Martin’s Genius Productions. Tyler holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch, and two BAs in African and African Diaspora Studies and Theater and Dance from UT Austin. Tyler hopes to create worlds, in her writing, where black women live beyond the basic means of survival and have the audacity to be autonomous.