Naomi Goodheart, New York-based writer, wearing a black shirt, standing in front of a blurred green field and blue sky.

Naomi Goodheart (she/they) is a New York-based writer and soup enthusiast. She writes about sisters, grief, and bugs.

Their play In Absentia will make its New York premiere in a full production directed by Sarah Shapiro at St. Lydia’s in Brooklyn on June 13-14. Tickets are now available.

Their work has been developed with the National Women’s Theatre Festival, Yale Playwrights Festival, and the Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford.

Other plays include THIS HOT TUB FITS TWO PEOPLE, morebetter, a new adaptation of The Seagull, and a drama based on Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Mad-House titled while i live, i hope (winner of the Shana Alexander Research Fellowship in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies).

Naomi is the winner of the John Hubbard Curtis Prize for excellence in a longer work of nonfiction, as well as the Henry P. Wright Prize and the William Zinsser Prize. She is a script reader for New Georges and an editorial assistant at Random House. She received a BA in Humanities and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies from Yale University.