The Place That Made You

Darcy Parker Bruce is a graduate of the M.F.A. Playwriting program at Smith College and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow. Their work explores the intersections of queerness, adoption, environmental precarity, and American mythologies through interdisciplinary performance and research-based playwriting. Their practice is informed by critical conflict theory, which they use to examine power structures and hierarchies. They are the recipient of a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellowship, and a 2023 writing residency at Gullkistan in Iceland. From 2022 to 2024, Bruce served as Writer in Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy. In 2018, they received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Theater for their play SOLDIER POET. They are currently working on THE BOOK OF A UNIVERSE INSIDE OF A UNIVERSE, a multigenerational performance work developed during their MacDowell residency that integrates archival research, adoption studies, queer temporality, and the ecological afterlives of war. In addition, Bruce is preparing for the upcoming publication of THE PIEDMONT PLAYS with Broadway Play Publishing, a four-play cycle confronting American ideology and the promise of "glory."