Biography

Chelsea Marcantel is an LA-based writer, director, and collaborator.

Reared by Cajuns in southwest Louisiana, Chelsea has lived and worked among the peoples of the Midwest, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, and now the West Coast. In 2016, she completed a Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Fellowship at The Juilliard School. Her plays, which have been produced across the US and Canada, include "Airness" (2018 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award), "Everything is Wonderful," "Tiny Houses" (2018 Roe Green Award), "Ladyish," "Devour," and the online theatrical experience "Citizen Detective" (NY Times Critic's Pick). As a member of the Walt Disney Animation Story Trust, Chelsea collaborated on such films as "Strange World" and "Wish," in addition to films and series that have not yet been released. She has also developed features and series with Warner Brothers and The Weinstein Company, in addition to other storytelling outfits.

As a writer, Chelsea is extremely interested in humans as small-group primates, and what happens when the rules and value systems of our chosen groups cease to serve us. She reads a lot of books, watches a lot of documentaries, and listens to a lot of podcasts. Chelsea is an enthusiastic member of The Writers Guild of America and The Dramatists Guild, and runs with a kick-ass group of activists called The Kilroys.

Chelsea's current theatrical projects include several new plays and commercial musical projects, as well as writing the book for the original musical "The Monster," for which she and her collaborators won a 2021 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre.
- IMDb mini biography by: Chelsea Marcantel