Gwyneth Forsythe

Gwyneth Forsythe was born in the middle of a tornado bouncing storm on Midsummer’s Day in 1997. She graduated from the University of Iowa in 2019 with BA in Theatre Arts and History with hard-won honors in both. She is the recipient of a VSA Playwright Discovery Award 2014 from the Kennedy Center, the Iowa Center of the Arts Scholarship 2017, Tennessee Williams Scholarship 2018, and the Lorena Bach Scholarship 2018. Her play Messenger: The MI5 Girl was produced at the University of Iowa’s theater program, where she also stage-managed four productions. She was the Drama Editor at earthwords: the undergraduate literary review, and has worked as a script supervisor on the short film Sexpert Franzen. Currently, she is writing thesis for her MFA in Writing for the Stage and Screen and Northwestern University while also interning at Cartel Pictures.