Torrey Townsend is a playwright based in New York City. Torrey’s play The Workshop was a New York Times Critic’s Pick, Voice Choice, and TONY Recommended when it premiered in New York in 2017. The Summer 2021 virtual premiere of his play, Off Broadway, was directed by Robert O’Hara (Tony nominee, Slave Play), and produced by Jeremy O. Harris (Tony nominee, Slave Play). The New York Times selected the production as a Critic’s Pick, and described Off Broadway as “a lacerating, wickedly funny portrait of a struggling New York company whose leaders are willfully oblivious of their racial and gender biases.” In 2020, his short work Executioners was featured in the collection One Room, another New York Times Critic’s Pick. His plays have been developed at The New Group, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre and Weston Playhouse.