S. Dylan Zwickel is a New York City- and London-based writer and director originally from Los Angeles. Her plays, musicals, and pilots have been finalists or semifinalists for the Orchard Project, the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (x2), the Jane Chambers Prize, the Princess Grace Award, the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award, the Blue Ink Award, the Terrence McNally New Play Incubator, the Parity Development Award (x2), the American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, and the O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference (x3) and National Music Theatre Conference (x2). As a director, she has directed everything from workshops of new plays and musicals to large-scale immersive experiences, and has worked as an associate director for Tony-nominated directors Liesl Tommy and Michael Greif. She is best known for her boutique interactive event company, Ghost Ship Murder Mysteries, and her play The Moss Maidens, which won Best Play and Best Ensemble at the 2023 SheNYC Summer Theater Festival and is now being developed into a feature film. Zwickel holds a BA in Theatre from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She was a member of the 2017 Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the 2022 TEDxBroadway Young Professionals Cohort.
