Hanna Novak is a New York City-based playwright, director, and producer. Her plays include The Opera is Always on the Table (New Ohio, 2018), I Wanna Destroy You (The Performing Garage, 2019) and Left Out (Semi-finalist, 2022 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference). She is a member of EST/Youngblood, a New Georges affiliated artist, and an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers Group. She has received residencies and workshops through the Ucross Foundation, The Performing Garage, and The Hearth. Past collaborators include Tina Satter/Half Straddle, minor theater, and Liz Magic Laser. Hanna graduated from the MFA Playwriting program at Hunter College in 2018, where she studied with Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. She is the Producing Director for the theater company Elevator Repair Service.