Trista Baldwin

Trista Baldwin is the award-winning author of over twenty plays, including PATTY RED PANTS, AMERICAN SEXY, SAND, and CHICKS WITH DICKS: Bad Girls on Bikes Doing Bad Things! Her work has been produced Off-Broadway and throughout the U.S., as well as Australia, Chile and Japan. A native of the PNW, Trista recently returned to Seattle after living in NYC and Minneapolis, where she was a tenured professor of dramatic writing at St. Cloud State University.  A recipient of Jerome Fellowships a McKnight Advancement Grant, Trista was a founding co-producer of the playwright-run Workhaus Collective, producing 25 plays over a decade in the Twin Cities.  Locally her work has been developed by Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, WET, and Live Girls!  Her play GHOSTED, written for SCT’s Kaiser Permanente Arts Education program is touring nationally.  Trista is currently under commission by Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloane Foundation and Seattle Children’s Theatre.  Her work is published by Heinemann, Spout Press, and Playscripts.