Arlene Hutton

Arlene Hutton is best known for Last Train to Nibroc, the first FringeNYC production to transfer Off-Broadway. Her play Blood of the Lamb won the Critics Circle Award at the 2024 Adelaide Festival Fringe. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and recipient of a NYFA Fellowship. Her Nibroc Trilogy includes Last Train to Nibroc (NY Drama League Best Play nomination), See Rock City (In the Spirit of America Award) and Gulf View Drive (LA Weekly and Ovation Award nominations, 2018 Ovation Award for Best Production at Rubicon Theatre). Hutton has received an EST/Sloan Foundation commission, a fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission and commissions from B Street Theatre, AD Players and the Big Bridge Theatre Consortium. in NY her plays have received development at The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists, The Barrow Group, FAB Women, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Project Y and Access Theatre, where she was a resident artist.
Regional production credits include Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, B Street Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, Echo Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Playhouse on Park and Chester Theatre. Her plays have been presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Off- and Off-Off-Broadway and at theatres across the US, in London and throughout the world. Other works include According to the Chorus (59E59) Running, I Dream Before I Take the Stand, Letters to Sala, Three Sisters Brontë and As It Is In Heaven. Her play for young audiences, Happy Worst Day Ever, was commissioned by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and was named winner of the 2010 Macy’s New Play Prize.