About Calley
CALLEY N. ANDERSON (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Memphis, TN. Her work has been staged at several colleges and play festivals around the country. She is a graduate of The New School for Drama (MFA: Playwriting) and Davidson College (BA: English; Concentration: Film & Media Studies).
After Davidson, Calley spent three years in the Memphis non-profit arts sector before moving to New York City to pursue her Master's degree. She currently serves as Program Manager at Teachers & Writers Collaborative. You can learn more about her work history here.
Calley is currently a 2025 - 2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a member of the Dramatists Guild, and a 2022 Cohort member of the National Black Theatre I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency. She was a James Baldwin MacDowell Fellow (Fall 2022) and is an alum of the Page 73 Writers Group (2024), American Theatre Group PlayLab (2020-23), Liberation Theatre Company Writing Residency Program (2022-23), Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group (2021-22), The Civilians R&D Group (2021-22), and Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows (2020-21). Past commissions include the Davidson College Theatre Department and the University of Memphis Dept. of Theatre and Dance.
Recent Readings & Productions
The Alligator
Untitled Play Development Lab
January 2025 | Developmental Reading
Collective Empathy Formation from 1968 and 2018
Downtown Urban Arts Festival
June 2024 | Production
Three Six Nine Monologue & Short Play Festival
April 2023 | Production
Performative
Fade to Black 10-Minute Play Festival
June 2022 | Production
Interlopers
Clubbed Thumb Summerworks @ Wild Project
June 2022 | Developmental Reading
Where you’ll see her next
Upcoming Readings & Productions
Stay tuned!