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TyLie Shider is an American writer, a 2025 Pedantic Arts' Writer in Residence, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellow, and the inaugural playwright in residence at ArtYard. A Core Writer and a McKnight Fellow in Playwriting at the Playwrights' Center (PWC), he is a recipient of Premiere Stages' Liberty Live commission, two consecutive Jerome Fellowships (PWC), and an I Am Soul playwright in residence at the National Black Theatre.

Recent projects include, Labor, Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family at Premiere Stages, The Gospel Woman, Whittier, and his filmmaking debut Sign O' the Times. Screenwriting credits include: Truant. He holds a BA in Journalism from Delaware State University and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, and he is a recipient of the August Wilson Research Award. A proud member of the Dramatist Guild, he is currently a Professor of Playwriting at Augsburg and Pace University, and a staff writer for Minnesota Playlist where he writes a regular column. 



​IG: @theplaywright



​Published work
A Star is Born in Plainfield 
The Dark-Skinned Kid Who Hopped the Turnstile
08:46 - Fresh Perspectives

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