Writer │ Comedian│Snarky Little Rascal
About
Beth Ann Powers is a playwright, comedian, teaching artists, theater maker, and snarky little rascal. In 2022 her script The Real Girls received the Mary Marlin Fisher Award for most outstanding play. Beth Ann’s work has been produced regionally by theater companies throughout the US and in various festivals including, most recently, Project Y’s WIT festival in NYC. By day, Beth Ann teaches drama and playwrighting classes to young artists and writes/ directs original children’s theater productions for students ages K-8. By night, she performs as a sketch comedian in Washignton, DC, as well as in comedy festivals around the country with her sketch group, Rails Comedy. She also writes and performes her own solo characters, several of which have made lives appearances on the Character’s Welcome youtube channel. Beth Ann holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon Universitym and a BA in Theater Arts, Performance Creation from the University of Minnesota. Additionally, she has trained in television writing at The Comedy Lab with Kim Howard Johnson, and attended sketch and satire classes at IO Theater, Second City Theater, The Institution Theater, and Character’s Welcome. In 2015, Beth Ann helped co-found her own production company Slap Happy Studios, for which she now serves as Artistic Director.
“Most comedy comes from one of two buckets: pain and suburban boredom”
— Mike Shur