Brynne Frauenhoffer

Brynne Frauenhoffer is a Chicago-based playwright. Productions of her work include Pro-Am with First Floor Theater (winner of the 2025 Jeff Award for New Work; The Kilroy List 2020) and Bury Me  with Dandelion Theatre.

 

She developed Disillusioned as a member of Goodman Theatre's New Stages Residency 2023. Disillusioned has since been selected for GPTC 2026 New Play Festival, as an O’Neill Semi-finalist and Blue Ink Award Semi-finalist. Other workshops and readings include Synchronicity (Salt Lake Acting Company; 2018 Semi-Finalist for the O’Neill 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 her new play Upline through Avalanche Theatre's Next Draft series.