Chana Porter, writes the NY Times, “uses incongruity and exaggeration to suggest some midnight-dark truths about human life and endeavor.” Her plays have been developed or produced by New Georges, Playwrights Horizons, The Catastrophic Theatre, La MaMa, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Cherry Lane, The Invisible Dog, & Movement Research. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a New Georges Audrey Resident, a Target Margin Artist-in-Residence, and the recipient of Honorable Mention for the Relentless Prize. She was playwright-in-residence at The Catastrophic Theatre from 2017-2020.
“No one else is doing what Chana Porter is doing—unhinging logic and time from their outward solidity, revealing enduring landscapes within the scenes resembling life but doing it one better each time.”
–Craig Lucas
“Porter’s type of risky storytelling is, well…. like a lion’s roar in an all too often timid jungle.”
–Houston Press
“exhausting and exhilarating, disturbing and amazing”
–BroadwayWorld
“The truly unique Phantasmagoria provides plenty of spooky fun, but, through its discussion of Mary Shelley and her work, also plenty of brain food that will leave you cerebrally stimulated long after the actors have taken their bows. ”
–Theatre is Easy
“This play cuts through the barriers we erect that prevent us from living, from being authentic and loving...She is a playwright to watch.”
—Suzanne Bowles, Times Square Chronicles
“a pioneer in today’s experimental landscape”
–Spectrum South