Brynne Frauenhoffer

Brynne Frauenhoffer is a Chicago-based playwright. Past productions of her work include Pro-Am (First Floor Theater, 2024; winner of the 2025 Jeff Award for New Work; included on The Kilroy List 2020) and Bury Me (Dandelion Theatre, 2019). As a member of  Goodman Theatre's New Stages Residency 2023, she wrote Disillusioned; she is looking forward to further developing the script as part of Great Plains Theatre Commons 2026 New Play Festival. Other workshops and readings include Synchronicity (Salt Lake Acting Company; 2018 Semi-Finalist for the O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference), Vape Naysh and Exorcise (First Floor Theater), Church Hurt (Black Cat Theatre), and Pizza Hut Heartbreaker (Commission Theatre Company; Top 20 List for the 2026 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival). Her short plays have been produced by Broken Nose Theatre, MadLab, American Blues Theater, Commission Theatre, and the Chicago One-Minute Play Festival. She is a proud company member with First Floor Theater. Currently, she is developing Upline through Avalanche Theatre's Next Draft series.