Whitney Rowland is a Minneapolis-based playwright and screenwriter. She has been a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, shortlisted for the Theatre503 New Play Award, and a finalist for both the Jerome Fellowship and the Core Writer program, the Playwrights’ Center. Her plays have been developed, numerous conferences, including the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and PlayPenn New Play Development Conference, where Whitney was named a 2019 Haas Fellow. She holds a Bachelors from the University of Kansas and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon.