Sigrid Edson is a playwright and theatermaker passionate about new work development. She is a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins University (2023) with a B.A. in Sociology and International Studies and a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. During her time at Hopkins, she wrote, produced, directed, acted in, and was on the tech team for a total of twenty productions by student-run theatre groups. She also served one year as the President of the oldest and largest student-run theatre group on campus, the Johns Hopkins University Barnstormers. Upon her graduation, she earned the Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts in recognition of her original play, untitled annoying sad theater teens, or This Is Supposed to Feel Good, which she produced and directed through the university’s Department of Theatre Arts & Studies.
After her graduation, Sigrid worked as the National Puppetry Conference’s Artistic Office Assistant at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center before relocating to the West Coast to serve as the 2023-2024 season’s Production Management Apprentice in the Professional Arts Training Program (PATP) at Seattle Rep. There, she supported the production of a major regional theater’s mainstage season and fell in love with producing workshops of new plays.
On top of her production management work, Sigrid earned the opportunity to workshop two of her own plays at Seattle Rep, Lil Bit Drives away with Knifed Tires in November 2023 and Everything Is Funny in April 2024. Following Lil Bit’s workshop, the play was selected for production at Artists in Partnership’s Long Beach Short Play Festival.
Currently, Sigrid works as a producing associate for a small professional theater company in Washington, D.C., and is a freelance dramaturg. Still, she considers herself a playwright above all else, and is passionate about making weird, messy, and unexpected art centering people whose stories rarely get to be told in weird and messy ways. She writes about queerness, madness, girlhood, death, and friendship — and tries to make it all as funny as possible.