Stephanie Alison Walker (she/her) is an internationally-produced, award-winning playwright whose work is known for the personalization of the political, humor in darkness and the exploration of the resilience of women. Born and raised in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago with a few early years in London and a lot of time in Argentina visiting her father after he moved there, Stephanie has lived all over including 15 years in L.A. and 10 months on a beautiful and extremely remote island in the Pacific Northwest. She received her Bachelors in Creative Writing and Spanish and began writing plays after college while working for Fox Theatricals in Chicago. Her play about the 2018 housing crisis AMERICAN HOME was the inaugural winner of American Blues Theatre’s Blue Ink Award, her play about the mothers of the disappeared in Argentina, THE MADRES, was the 2019 Winner of the Francesca Primus Prize, winner of the Ashland New Plays Festival, the Generations Prize and semi-finalist for the CTG/ Humanitas Prize for playwriting, her follow-up play THE ABUELAS, winner of the Ashland New Plays Festival, premiered at Teatro Vista and was recently adapted into a short film. THE ART OF DISAPPEARING was a finalist for the Primus Prize and enjoyed critical praise for the world premiere in Chicago by 16th Street Theater in 2015. FRIENDS WITH GUNS was an O’Neill Finalist, a L.A. Times Critics Choice, and winner of Best New Play at the 2019 Valley Theatre Awards. The play she wrote during the pandemic, SOPHIA HAYDEN DESERVES BETTER, tells the story of Sophia Hayden, the architect of the Woman’s Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was a part of Gglassfest by Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago. Her newest play ADIRONDACK CHAIR CIRCLE tackles book-banning moms. She has had the honor to work with wonderful theatres across the U.S., including Teatro Vista, Chicago Dramatists, Lookingglass, The Gift, American Blues, The Road, Antaeus Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Moving Arts, Moxie Theatre and more. Her short plays have been anthologized by Smith & Kraus. Her full-lengths (Friends With Guns, American Home and The Art of Disappearing) are  published by Broadway Publishing, Inc. In addition to writing plays, she is currently adapting FRIENDS WITH GUNS and THE ABUELAS as features and while raising two spirited boys and selling real estate in the suburbs of Chicago. Stephaniealisonwalker.com.