CRYSTAL SKILLMAN is an internationally award-winning playwright, fictional podcast writer, and comic book author. She has written for Stories Podcast (Wondery Kids), Girl Tales, Adventure Time comics, and Marvel comics. Upcoming theatre credits include: The Rocket Men, which was nominated for this year’s NNPN Showcase and will kick off its first production at The Phoenix Theatre in Fall 2025, and Rain and Zoe Save the World which premiered in the UK in 2022, whose American Premiere is in the works. She is also the playwright of Open, a NYTimes Critics’ Pick play published by Dramatist Play Service. Crystal is the recipient of a Mid-Atlantic Arts Grant, Kilroys, a NY Innovative Theatre Award, the Earth Matters on Stage Prize, a MUT Prize, EST/Sloan, an Offie Nomination; O’Neill, BAPF, McKnight Finalist; Bway World Winner. Crystal is the book writer of Mary and Max the musical (Composer/Lyricist: Bobby Cronin), which is currently in the pipeline for Broadway with Drew and Dane Productions. She was just named a finalist for the Music Theater Conference at the O’Neill. She is the author of the NYTimes Critics’ Pick plays Geek (produced by Qui Nguyen’s theater company) and Cut which first put her on the map in the theater scene. She is co-author of King Kirby (with Fred Van Lente), which you can listen to on the Broadway Podcast Network. The graphic novel of their webtoon Eat Fighter (over a million views), will be coming out from Rocketship comics this fall. Crystal teaches playwriting and episodic theory at The New School  for both the drama program and MFA department. She is also a professor at Pace and Marymount University. www.crystalskillman.com Instagram @crystalskillman