Tim J. Lord is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced and developed at theaters across the United States. As a member of the disability community, he strives to tell stories of communities who are overlooked on our stages, writing plays which are epic in scope yet intimate in scale, blurring the lines between the fantastic and the everyday. These include We Declare You a Terrorist at Round House Theatre, which will be published by Dramatic Publishing later this year; and Through the Sunken Lands, a new, original musical created with composer Avi Amon, which premiered at the Kennedy Center last year. Other producing and developing partners include The Public Theater; Actors Theatre of Louisville; The Lark (RIP); New Harmony Project; Phamaly Theater; Pillsbury House + Theater; The 52nd St. Project and The Working Theater, among others. Tim was the inaugural recipient of the Apothetae-Lark Fellowship for a playwright with a disability; a 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; and a 2017 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. He is a past writer-in-residence at the William Inge Theater Festival and was the Reg E. Cathey Writer-in-Residence at the Orchard Project. He studied with Paula Vogel and is a graduate of the playwriting program at the University of California, San Diego. Tim is married to the director and Producing Artistic Director of The Playwrights’ Center, Nicole A. Watson.