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 also been nominated and shortlisted for OFFIE and OFF-FEST awards. They have been published by NextStage Press.  

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Their first musical, BACHELORS OF FINE ARTS, co-written with Hope Johansen, will be playing Edinburgh Fringe this summer. 

 

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. They are a direct descendant of Wild Bill Hickok, but that's a long story.

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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.