Beth Hyland is a playwright and screenwriter based in Southern California.
Her plays and musicals have been produced and developed at the Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf LookOut, Portland Center Stage, The Hearth, Know Theatre, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Provincetown Theatre, and others.
She is the 2024 recipient of Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and Jay Harris Commission for her play SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA. Her play Fires, Ohio was the 2023 recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting.
She co-founded The Sound, an itinerant Chicago storefront theatre, with artistic director Rebeca Willingham. Her short film Clambake, directed by Sammy Zeisel, was an official selection of the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and the Santa Monica Film Festival.
She is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at UC San Diego under the mentorship of Naomi Iizuka and Deborah Stein. She is represented by Jamie Kaye-Phillips at Paradigm and Benjamin Blake and Anthony Ippolito at Heroes and Villains Entertainment.