Bella Poynton (she/her) is a playwright, director, actor, and theater scholar. Her creative work has been published with Concord Theatricals and can be seen in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, The Weirdest Plays of 2020, and WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters. Her plays have been produced and developed at Alleyway Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, 3^rd Act Theatre Company, Otherworld Theatre, Theatre Viscera, the Plays in Bloom Residency, and the Sam French OOB Festival among others. Her scholarly work has been published in Comparative Drama, Theatre/Practice, Global Performance Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and Texas Theatre Journal. Poynton is a co-chair of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid America Theatre Conference, the director of the Playwrights Wing at First Look Buffalo Theatre Company, and a co-editor of Interventions at Contemporary Theatre Review. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a PhD in Theatre and Performance from UB Theatre and Dance.