J.C. Pankratz (they/them) is a proud queer, non-binary, and transgender playwright writing genre-defying work about their community’s relationships to the body, power, and the more-than-human world.

Their plays are this is a face (O’Neill Finalist; National Queer Theatre’s Cherry Picked Fire Island series), Mortals (Playwrights’ Center 2024-25 Public Season, Pridefest at The Tank), All’s Well (Barrymore Award Winner for Outstanding Outdoor Production with Shakespeare in Clark Park), Eat Your Young (Playwrights Realm INK’D Festival; workshop production, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Little Kingdom (2nd Place, Mark Twain Playwriting Award; Distinguished Achievement, Paula Vogel Playwriting Award), Seahorse (2021 FMM Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language), and Redeemer Mine (Finalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference).

Beloved collaborators also include Shakespeare in Clark Park, CompanyOne, Kitchen Dog Theater, and Lily + Joan Theatre Company. They have been a Playwrights’ Realm Writing Fellow, a Core Apprentice with the Playwrights’ Center, and a Visionary Playwright with Theatremasters.

They have an MFA from Boston University, and have interned at New Dramatists and Clubbed Thumb.