Brigid Amos is a Rahway, New Jersey-based writer whose plays have been produced, read, or podcast in ten states and the UK. She is a winner of the 2026 American Association of Community Theatre NewPlayFest for her full-length Listen, which will have its World Premiere at Theatre Salina in October 2025. Winner of the 2022 Goshen Peace Play Contest and the 2024 Tiger’s Heart Players Literary Competition, she has also been a finalist for The Woodward/Newman Drama Award, The Todd McNerney Playwriting Award, and 2020 Kitchen Dog Theater's New Play Festival among others. Brigid is the recipient of a 2025 Individual Artist Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a 2025 Paterson Performing Arts Development Council's residency program in which she is developing her full length play Covenant Farm. In 2022, she developed her full-length Dove with ASOTO (A Stage of Their Own) in New Jersey, and the play had its regional premiere with Angels Theatre Company in Lincoln, Nebraska. Losing the Ring in the River, a full length based on the book of poetry by Marge Saiser, was also produced by Angels Theatre Company as part of the 2017-18 season of the Lied Center for Performing Arts. A former soil scientist, Brigid holds a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Wellesley College (Semester at the National Theater Institute, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), an M.S. in Agronomy from Kansas State University, and a Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a member of The Theater Project’s Playwrights Workshop and the Dramatists Guild. 
 
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