"Calamity West is one of the best playwrights in Chicago. Or maybe the country. Or the universe." - Chicago Reader
CALAMITY WEST
THOUGHTS ON
CALAMITY'S WORK
“West, a Chicago writer with an ebullient sense of theatricality, is the real deal."
- Chicago Tribune
"West is a colossal talent with a formidable intellect..."
- Chicago Tribune
“Calamity West is, without question, a name to watch.”
- Chicago Tribune
“Calamity West manages to hook you in and get you comfortable
only to take you places no one wants to see clearly.”
- Third Coast
“West writes like a vise, slowly tightening the screws
until her characters are trapped and her audience is rapt.”
- Windy City Times
“…an essential voice…”
- Chicago Tribune
“West’s writing really hits the zeitgeist. She’s an important voice in the world...”
- PerformInk
“…a leading aesthetic innovator of storefront realism as well as a
tough-as-nails moralist.”
- Chicago Reader
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
Dominic Orlando Playwriting Award
Nominated - National
November 2023
Kilroy List Citation - In The Canyon
National
October 2023
Platform Award
Nominated - Chicago
July 2023
The Lortel Theatre - Alcove at The Lortel
Awardee - National
May 2023
The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute
Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission
Awardee - National
May 2022
NFMLA - Best Screenplay
Nominated - Cool For Five Seconds
Los Angeles
February 2021
Kilroy List Citation - Give It All Back
National
June 2015
Kilroy List Honorable Mention - The Peacock
National
June 2015
3Arts Chicago Theatre
Awardee - $25,000 Prize - Chicago
October 2014
