Arlene Hutton is the author of LETTERS TO SALA and THE NIBROC TRILOGY and, more recently, ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS, which premiered at The Road Theatre in LA and was produced by New Light Theatre Project at 59E59 in NYC in 2023. The Rubicon Theatre production of her play GULF VIEW DRIVE received a 2018 Ovation Award for Best Production. Other regional credits include B Street, Chester Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, Mad Cow, and Washington Stage Guild.

An alumna of New Dramatists and member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, the EST Playwrights’ Unit, New Circle Theatre Company, New Light Theatre Project, and Honor Roll!, Hutton is a three-time winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival, nine-time finalist for the Heideman Award, Francesca Primus Prize finalist, and recipient of an EST/Sloan Commission, a Bushwick Starr grant and NYFA Fellowship. Residencies include the William Inge Center, the Lark, the MacDowell Colony, SPACE at Ryder Farm, and Yaddo. Hutton’s works have been presented at FringeNYC, Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, regionally, in London, and at the Edinburgh Fringe. Her scripts are published by DPS, Playscripts, and TRW Group. Her latest play, BLOOD OF THE LAMB, commissioned by B Street Theatre, and workshopped at Centenary Stage and The Bechdel Group, premiered at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh in 2023. Hutton has been on the faculty at the College of Charleston, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the University of the South and Seattle Pacific University. Based in NYC, she teaches playwriting for The Barrow Group.