Marissa Joyce Stamps is a Black, Haitian-American NYC-born and based writer, director, choreographer, performer, and educator who creates vortexes that center, celebrate and amplify Black folks through an Afrosurrealist lens, often in dialogue with kinetics and landscape dramaturgy.

 

She was the recipient of the 2023 Princess Grace Playwriting Award/New Dramatists Residency. She is a member of EST/Youngblood, The Lucille Lortel’s 2024-2025 Alcove, Roundabout’s Directors Group (Cohort 6) The New George’s Jam, and TAG at The Tank; she was a member of Clubbed Thumb's 2023-2024 Early-Career Writers Group, a Finalist for The National Black Theatre's 2023 I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency, and a Mercury Store Fall 2023 Lead Artist. 

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Select plays: Being Up in Here and All the Other Businesses that Don't Concern You OR When You See a Buncha Black People Running, What Do You Do? (Exponential Festival 2024, Brick Aux 2022), Letiche and The [Wondrous] Pursuit of Elvis (2024 O'Neill NPC Finalist, National Black Theatre Special Project 2024, Bushwick Starr SRS 2023), You Can Tell from the Twisted Juniper (2022 O'Neill NPC Finalist; Chautauqua Theater Company's 2021 New Play Workshop; The Workshop Theater's Fall 2020 Intensive), Blue Fire Burns the Hottest (Exponential Festival 2022; Orchard Project’s 2021 Performance Lab), and deadbodydeadbodydeadbody (Ars Nova ANT Fest 2022), and Techno Paper Planes (Moxie Arts Commission 20/21). 

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Marissa has also collaborated with The Public Theater, 24 Hour Plays, The Fire This Time Festival, Conch Shell Productions, 48 Hours... in Harlem, Dixon Place, Irondale, The Anthropologists, New Ohio Theatre, Keen Company, Wild Project, BUFU, and more. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild. Marissa serves as Literary Manager at The Workshop Theater, Co-Resident Dramaturg at Conch Shell Productions, and has taught at Brooklyn College. She graduated with her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, studying under haruna lee Dennis A. Allen II, and Elana Greenfield. She also earned her BFA in Drama and BA in Journalism from NYU. marissajoycestamps.com @marissajoycestamps

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Marissa also really likes dark chocolate, hiking, bodies of water, spaghetti westerns, and watching the sunset at Rockaway Beach. She will own a cacao farm one day.