Tom Coash is a playwright, director, producer, teacher, and is currently working on his first novel. Coash has won numerous playwriting awards including the American Theatre Critics Association's "M. Elizabeth Osborn Award", the Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights, an Edgerton Foundation National New Play Award, the Hammerstein Award, The Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, and a Jerome Playwriting Fellowship. His plays have been produced around the world including: Park Theatre (London), South African National Theatre Festival, Portland Stage, Barrington Stage, New Jersey Rep, the InterAct Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, and many more.

Coash’s short plays have been produced as podcasts and short films and he has had many publications including: full-length plays, short plays, monologues, short fiction, and non-fiction in publications such as Best 10-Minute Plays (2023, 2019, 2015, 2007), Best Monologues (numerous years), Original Works Publishing, Plays International Magazine, Dramatist Magazine, Qu Literary Magazine, Eleven, Eleven Journal for Literature & Art, Stonecoast Review, Heuer Publishing, Brooklyn Publishers, and many more. Coash has founded new play festivals around the world (including Egypt and Bermuda, which are still ongoing) and currently teaches scriptwriting for the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Low-Residency Program.

Coash currently lives in Louisville, Ky with his lovely and very talented artist wife, Julia Coash (juliaacoash.com). They love to travel and have lived many years abroad including wonderful stints in Egypt and Bermuda. Coash's many and varied passions include the outdoors, hiking and climbing, reading, selling rare books, and, recently, a serious addiction to pickleball.

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