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Bekah Brunstetter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her play The Cake has been produced over 100 times worldwide, as ran off Broadway at  Manhattan Theater Club. Her musical A.D. 16, about teen Jesus and Mary Magdalene, written with Schmigadoon’s Cinco Paul, premiered at the Olney theater center.

Her musical adaption of the Notebook, written with Ingrid Michaelson, is currently running on Broadway. Her work has been staged and developed by The O’Neill Playwright’s conference, the Atlantic Theater, Portland Center Stage, The Old Globe, the La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, The Echo theater, Playmaker’s Rep, and Ojai Playwright’s conference.

 As a TV writer and producer, she has written for Switched at Birth, American Gods, This is Us, and Maid. She’s developed pilots with Hulu, Apple, Skydance, Heyday, and Bad Robot. She won a WGA award for her work on Maid.

 She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writes group, Ars Nova Play Group, The Playwright’s Realm, and the Women’s Project Lab, and the Echo Playwright’s Group. 

 BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama.