TS HAWKINS is an international author, performance poet, art activist, playwright, trauma-informed & award winning educator, and member of the Dramatists Guild. Plays, short works, and books include Seeking Silence, sweet bread peaches (formerly, Cartons of Ultrasounds), Too Late to Apologize, In Their Silence (formerly, They'll Neglect to Tell You), #RM2B, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, AGAIN, #SuiteReality, "don't wanna dance with ghosts...", #SuiteTea, Sugar Lumps & Black Eye Blues, Confectionately Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, and The Hotel Haikus. Hawkins' one-act choreopoem, AGAIN, was acknowledged for having the "Best Theater Moment of 2017". #SuiteReality received the 2017 "Theatrical Reality Check" Surya Bonaly Award, an international publication in WORDPEACE Literary Journal, showcased in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre for the Black Lives, Black Words International Theatre Festival, and shares residence at the Carnegie Mellon University Hunt Library. Cartons of Ultrasounds had the pleasure of returning to New York for a limited off-Broadway run. Recently, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G graced Australian stages as part of Antipodes Theater Company's Ricochet Reading Series! Hawkins' residency credits include Penn LGBT Center Scholar in Residence, National Black Theatre SOUL Producing Resident, Azuka Theatre - Rising Writers Residency Cohort, Kaleid Theatre Final Project Writer-in-Residence, Swim Pony Performing Arts TrailOff Writer-in-Residence, 1812 Productions' Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Residency, Out of Exile Artist-in-Residence, Irondale Ensemble "To Protect, Serve, and Understand", Painted Bride Art Center's Souls of Black Folk & Power to the Prompt, and Alphabet Arts Puppets & Poets. Notable writing contributions include Rising Voices: Poems Towards a Social Justice Revolution (University Professors Press), Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press), Family Legacies (SONKU Collective Magazine), WORDPEACE Literary Magazine/vol. 2 Spring Edition, Fragrance of Love (Poet Tree), Long Wharf Theatre Blog Series, The Dramatist - Motivation & Innovative Dramatists Issues, and Pandemic of Violence Anthology vol. 1 & 2 (North of Oxford Press). Featured playwriting opportunities include Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist for 2024-25 (top 25). Ongoing projects: TrailOff and Community Capital: an Afrofuturism South Philly Walking Experience.
