Michelle Kholos Brooks is an award-winning playwright with productions staged internationally. Awards and distinctions include the Susan Glaspell Award for H*TLER’S TASTERS and the Riva Shiner Comedy Award for KALAMAZOO. ROOM 1214 was a finalist for The Ashland New Plays Festival. HOSTAGE was a finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, The Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest, and a Showcase finalist for the National New Play Network. CHAIR received second place in the Firehouse Theatre Festival of New American Plays.

Plays have been produced and/or developed at the Skylight Theatre (World Premiere, HOSTAGE), Centenary Stage (World Premiere, H*TLER’S TASTERS), Pacific Resident Theatre, Bloomington Playwright’s Project (World Premiere, KALAMAZOO), The Colony Theatre (World Premiere, FAMILY PLANNING), New Light Theater Project, 59E59 Theaters (World Premiere, ROOM 1214), NewYorkRep (World Premiere, WAR WORDS), Vox Humana Theatre Ensemble (World Premiere, ALLERGIC TO WALNUTS), Wings Theatre (World Premire, TWO PARENTS, TWO WEDDINGS, TWO YEARS, Florida Repertory Theatre, Boston Court Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, North Shore Center for The Performing Arts, Adrienne Archst Center for the Performing Arts, Wordsmyth Theatre, The Barrow Group, Bay Street Theatre, iTheatre Collaborative, Olive Theatre at Greenside, White Rabbit Theatre Company, Belavarosi Szinhaz, (Budapest) ,Arena Stage, Syracuse Stage, 5th Wall Theatre, Calliope Stage, City Theatre Miami, InterAct, Stage West,The Actors’ Gang, MeX Theatre, Theatre Row, A.R.T./New York Theatres, New Jersey Rep, and Rogue Machine Theatre. In 2024, WAR WORDS was presented at the Library of Congress

Publications include Dramatists Play Service, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Plays For New Audiences, Room Literary Magazine, The Daily Beast and Zocalo Public Square.

Brooks earned a B.A. from Emerson College and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Otis College of Art and Design. She is a Resident Artist at New Light Theater Project, a board member of ShPIel-Performing Identity Theatre Project, and a member of The Dramatists Guild of America. In addition, she is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.