Riley is a Danish & Irish multidisciplinary performance artist and professor. Their practice in both art and academia centers international stage performance, the classics, and cinema theory.

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Riley's work has been produced and developed off-Broadway, in London, Edinburgh, and Copenhagen. They have won or been a finalist for many major playwriting awards and residencies; including the Eugene O'Neill National Playwriting Conference (4x), the Staltonhall Residency, the Dramatists Guild Fellowship (2x), SheNYC Arts (2x) Workshop Theatre's TGN2S+ Residency, ArtHouse Production's INKubator, Culture Lab Emergence Residency, and the Juilliard Playwriting Program (2x). They have been published by NextStage Press.  

 

They are a professor of playwriting at University of Texas at Arlington, and an adjudicator for the Texas Thespians State Festival. As an arts administrator, they've designed content + digital marketing campaigns for some of the hottest new productions off-Broadway, off-West, and for Edinburgh Fringe, collaborating with major theatre institutions to create exciting engagement for their seasons.

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Riley loves reading Sheridan Le Fanu & Greek tragedies, building their own Criterion Closet, and thrifting ceramic kitchenware at Savers. They have two dogs named Hash Brown and Whiskey and two cats named Freddie and Lorraine.

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MFA: NYU '27

BFA: Marymount Manhattan '21​

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ARTIST PHILOSOPHY:

We must consider what the work is trying to say beyond what we perceive it to be doing. 

Go see movies in the cinema, even if you're going alone.

Be kind.