Bathsheba Doran

Bathsheba Doran is a playwright living in New York City.

Doran, nicknamed "Bash", grew up in London and studied at Cambridge University. She was a contemporary of Robert Webb and David Mitchell and her first job as a professional writer was comedy sketch writing for their BBC2 show Bruiser. She then worked for several years as a comedy writer, writing for shows like Smack the Pony and TV to Go. In 2000, she moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 2003, and went on to become a playwriting fellow at Juilliard School.

Doran's work has been developed by the O'Neill Playwriting Center, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club and Sundance Theatre Lab, among others. She helped Lear deBessonet with her play transFigures, and has been commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company and Playwrights Horizons.

Doran says she fell in love with theatre when she found Peter Pan's shadow in the backstage at a theatre when she was a little girl and realised that it was made of pantyhose.

Her mother is the Elizabethan historian, Susan Doran.

Doran's play, Kin, described as "exquisitely wrought" by the New York Times, premiered at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons from 25 February – 3 April 2011, under the direction of Sam Gold.

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