DARRAH CLOUD

Darrah Cloud (Playwright) Besides House of McQueen, Darrah is currently working on a musical adaptation of Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone with David Simpatico and Michael Holland for Theater Latte Da in Minneapolis, as well as Be Safe, I Love You, with Stephanie Salzman. Her most recent productions are Sabina, the musical, which premiered in April 2022 at Portland Stage, and Turning, which premiered in April of 2021 at Centenary Stage. Her first play, The House Across the Street, premiered at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Since then, productions across the planet include The Stick Wife, Our Suburb, The Mud Angel, Dream House, Braille Garden, The Sirens, HeartLand, The Boxcar Children, Honor Song for Crazy Horse, Understudy Jesus, and the stage adaptation of Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!, filmed by American Playhouse. Cincinnati Playhouse toured her plays for children, Joan the Girl of Arc, and What’s Bugging Greg? She has written numerous movies of the week for CBS, Fox and NBC. An alum of New Dramatists, she co-directs Howl Playwrights in Rhinebeck, NY. She is a graduate of the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa and Goddard College, where she taught for 17 years. She now teaches in the Mountainview MFA Program at Southern New Hampshire University.