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  Colin Waitt

Colin waitt
Writer

A selection of Colin's work can be viewed on the New Play Exchange.

To inquire about licensing rights or hiring him to give dramaturgical support on your project, please click here.
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Let's Get Weird
  • Debuted as #1 new release in Theatre on Amazon
  • Staff Pick at NYC's Drama Book Shop
  • "Humane and full of heart. Witty and weird. A lovely collection that invites the reader to dive in and play!" - Amazon Review​

Dowager Countess So-and-So
  • Soon-to-be published in the second edition of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2026)​
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Bump in the Night
  • Milton Keynes International Film Festival: Award Winner
    Lytham International Film Festival: Finalist
    Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival: Selected
    Oxford Shorts: Selected
    Los Angeles Cinematography AWARDS (LACA): Finalist
    Hobnobben Film Festival: Selected
    Toronto International Women Film Festival: Nominee
    Pentedattilo Film Festival: Selected
    Houston Horror Film Festival: Selected
    HorrOrigins Film Festival: Selected
    Catalyst International Film Festival: Selected
    The Women's Film Festival: Selected

We Love Work
  • Milton Keynes International Film Festival: Selected
    Lytham International Film Festival: Finalist
    Ocean Coast Film Festival, Portugal: Selected
    Glass Ceiling Breakers: GCB: Selected
    Portland Comedy Film Festival: Finalist
    Pentedattilo Film Festival: Selected
    Canada's Yes! Let's Make a Movie Film Festival: Nominee
    Nevada Women's Film Festival: Selected
    Hollywood Comedy Shorts: Selected

Oh, You Picked Up
  • Selected to be one of six plays featured in Theatre503's Rapid Write Response in May 2023

I Have Eggs
  • Selected to be one of six plays featured in Theatre503's Rapid Write Response in July 2023​

The (Token) Woman in Black
  • Dramaturg of The (Token) Woman in Black at the Soho Theatre summer 2023. It was written by Natalie Perera and Hamza Jeetooa, directed by Tom Paul Martin, and produced by Saima Ferdows. 

Subway Plays (Co-written with Jenny Lyn Bader and Jessie Bear)
  • Recommended by The New York Times as "What to Watch" while housebound from the Coronavirus lockdown
  • "The plays now feel like bittersweet phantasmagoria. Snapshots preserved in sounds and feelings, of a city that may never be the same" - Jose Solís, New York Times
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Little (Book by Colin, music and lyrics by Wesley Zurick)
  • Developed in residency at Barn Arts (US)
  • Finalist for The New Victory Theater's LabWorks (US)​

The Pain of Loving You
  • ​Finalist for Red Bull Theater’s Short New Play Festival (US)
  • Finalist for Davenport Theatricals’s Ten Minute Play Contest (US)

Fair
  • ​Longlisted for Theatre503's International Playwrting Award (UK)
  • Semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (US)​


Photo:
Nick Carrillo & Liz Leimkuhler in Good Taste at The Tank
Director: Kristin McCarthy Parker
​Photographer: Nohr Miles
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  • About
  • Writer
  • Creative Producer
  • Educator
  • Contact
  • Buy
    • Let's Get Weird (US)
    • Let's Get Weird (UK)
    • Let's Get Weird (CA)
    • Let's Get Weird (AU)