Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Savannah Reich is a playwright and screenwriter whose work is focused on experimental forms and unusual engagement with audiences. Her plays have been produced at theaters and universities across the country; commissioned by Walking Shadow Theater Company, the University of Minnesota, SuperGroup, and Caridad Svich at the Lucille Lortel Theater; developed by the Playwrights Center, The Flea, and Seven Devils New Play Foundry; and supported by residencies at Tofte Lake Art Center, MassMoCA, and Millay Arts. She is a longtime independent producer who has created and toured original works to bars, basements, backyards, and occasionally even theaters across the country. Her feature-length screenplay “Beebe and Barton” was the winner of the national Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize in 2015, and her short film “Men Among Men” was the winner of the Bill Murray Comedy Award at the Twin Cities Film Festival (judged by Bill Murray himself). She was a 2020/21 McKnight Fellow at the Playwrights Center, and her auto-theater experiment “Oedipus in Seattle” was the winner of the audience choice award at the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.