Heidi Schreck

Playwright

Heidi Schreck is a writer and actor living in Brooklyn who grew up in Wenatchee, Washington and attended the University of Oregon as a theatre major. Her plays include Grand Concourse, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons and Steppenwolf Theatre in 2014/15 and was a Lilly Award winner and finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize; Creature (New Georges and Page 73); There Are No More Big Secrets (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); and The Consultant (Long Wharf Theatre). Other playwriting awards include the Claire Tow Fellowship at Playwrights Horizons, the Roe Green Award at Cleveland Playhouse, and the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Heidi is an alumna of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Sundance Theatre Lab, and is currently commissioned by MTC, True Love Productions, South Coast Rep and the Atlantic Theatre Company.  As an actor, Heidi has performed at Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theatre (Shakespeare in the Park); MTC, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, The Foundry, Clubbed Thumb, The Women’s Project, The Roundabout, Williamstown, Berkeley Rep, Center Theatre Group, and with The Talking Band. She has also worked as a writer and actor on Showtime’s NURSE JACKIE and BILLIONS, and as reporter in St. Petersburg Russia. Heidi has received two OBIES, a Drama Desk, and the Theatre World Award.