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Whitney Rowland is an award-winning playwright, game writer, and screenwriter. She has worked as a Scriptwriter with Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft Quebec, and Ubisoft Shanghai on the AAA video game titles AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA and ASSASSIN’S CREED SHADOWS, as well as contributed to a yet unannounced title.
As a playwright, Whitney was a 2024-25 McKnight Fellow in Playwriting and is currently in her first year as a member of the Core Writer cohort at the Playwrights’ Center. Her plays have been developed at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Mid-America Theatre Conference, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festivals (regional and national), Great Plains Theatre Conference, and PlayPenn New Play Development Conference, where Whitney was named a 2019 Haas Fellow. Her work has been produced at Here’s the Exit Theater Company, Synchronicity Theater, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Minnesota Shorts, Northwest Children’s Theater & School, and at colleges and universities around the country.
On the screen side of things, Whitney’s kids' sports feature-length screenplay THE BUZZBOTS was a winner in the 2017 CMU/Sloan Screenwriting Contest, earning her a $7,500 grant. Her family drama THE WAY UP was a 2016 finalist for the same award.
Whitney holds a Bachelors from the University of Kansas and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, son, and two cats.
