ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cody Daigle-Orians is a Louisiana-born writer and teaching artist now living in Hartford, CT.
In his playwright life, he was the resident playwright for The Playhouse Tulsa’s 2013-2014 season, the company playwright for Acadiana Repertory Theatre and a company playwright for Manhattan Theatre Works. Plays for Acadiana Repertory Theatre: "In the Bones", "The Survivalists", and "The Woman’s Part". Plays for The Playhouse Tulsa: "William and Judith", "Tulsa! A Radio Christmas Spectacular", "Little Women" and "The Bottom of the Sea". Plays for Manhattan Theatre Works: "Providence", "A Home Across the Ocean". His work has been produced and/or developed at the Astoria Performing Arts Center, New Jersery Repertory Theatre, The Actors Company Theatre (NYC), The Growing Stage (Netcong, NJ), Gadlfy Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), StageRIGHT (Seattle, WA) and the Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha, NE).
In his teaching artist life, he was a teaching artist at New Britain Youth Theatre. He’s worked as a teaching artist or created plays for young actors/audiences for the Delta Grand Youth Theatre, AUI Summer Theatre, The Playhouse Tulsa and Union Public Schools. He also created the PlayBridge Workshop, a unique play creation workshop for young people, in collaboration with AUI in Lafayette, Louisiana, and has produced three world premiere plays with their young actor/playwrights.
When he’s not in the theatre, Cody is the programming coordinator for the Charter Oak Cultural Center in downtown Hartford.