CALLEY N. ANDERSON

Calley has been selected as a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Theatre, Performance, and Spoken Word!

Calley chats with artist jeremy o’brian about being Southern Black playwrights, politics, Toni Morrison, and more for Episode 2 of “Short Story University”!

Calley’s play, Collective Empathy Formation from 1968 and 2018, received second place for Best Short and the Audience Award at the 22nd Downtown Urban Arts Festival!

7th grader London Ivy interviewed Calley about her playwriting journey for Season 2 of JA Memphis podcast “World Ready Radio”!

Calley was one of eight playwrights selected for the 2024 Page 73 Writers Group! She was also one of twelve semifinalists for the 2024 Fellowship.

Calley’s play, The Alligator, was selected as a finalist for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival!

Calley was named a James Baldwin Fellow and spent four weeks in residence at MacDowell in August - September 2022!

Calley was selected for the 2022 I AM SOUL Playwright Residency at Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre!

Calley was selected as a participant of Liberation Theatre Company’s 2022-2023 Writing Residency Program!

Calley wrote an article about process for her new play, Someone Else’s Bullet, for The Civlians’ Extended Play site.

Calley was selected as a member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2021-2022 Early Career Writers Group!

Calley was interviewed about The Story and the Teller, her writing process, and the play’s ties to critical fabulation for HowlRound Theatre Commons.