Eli Campbell

Originally from Chicago, Eli Campbell is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, an alum of The New Harmony Project, and a winner of the Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival National Student Playwriting Award. Their work has been developed at The Story Theatre (Chicago) and Dreamwell Theatre (Iowa City), as well as various theaters in North Carolina, Texas, Idaho, and Illinois. They worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Playwriting at the University of Iowa and developed work under the Dee Silver, MD Playwriting Commission in 2025. As a queer and trans artist, their work often investigates transition, states of ambiguity, and the body. Eli avoids strict realism in favor of heightened theatricality, and their plays address loneliness, cruelty, and desperation through dark humor and attention to language.