Dena Igusti is a queer Indonesian Muslim writer born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of ECDYSIS: CACOPHONY OF SKINS (14Poems, London 2025) and CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020), which has been listed as a 2022 Perennial Award Winner, 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick, and Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021. They are the co-playwright of the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united states through theater (2023 A is For Winner). They are the Inaugural 2023 NYFA Ryan Hudak Playwright Award Winner.
Their work has been featured in BOAAT Press, Peregrine Journal, Colorbloq, and several other publications. Their work has been produced and performed at Guggenheim, LA Times, The Brooklyn Museum, The Apollo Theater, Women Deliver, the 2018 Teen Vogue Summit, Prelude Festival (Cut Woman, 2020), Center At West Park (CON DOUGH, 2021), The Tank (First Sight at LimeFest, 2021), New Ohio Theatre (Kept in the Dark, 2022), The Public (BLISS at Breaking The Binary Theatre Festival, 2023) HERE Arts (What You Are To Me, National Queer Theater’s Criminal Queerness Fest, 2025) and several other venues internationally. They have been featured in Business Insider, Teen Vogue, American Theatre Magazine, and more. have been commissioned by Motor Theatre Company, The Miranda Family Fund, and more.
They are a 2026 New York City Council Citation Awardee, 2026 National Queer Theater Artist Collective Fellow, 2025 New York For Arts & Culture Resident Artist, 2024 More Art Engaging Artist Fellow, 2024 Asian American Arts Alliance What Can We Do? Grant Recipient, 2024 NYSCA Grant Recipient, 2023 We Are Family Foundation Fellow, 2023 NYFA Women’s Fund Recipient, 2023-2024 Brooklyn Public Library Heritage Ambassador, 2023 NYFA Queens Art Grant Recipient, 2023 Asian American Writers’ Workshop Open City Fellow, 2023 Culture Push Fellow, 2023 More Arts Engaging Artist Fellow, 2022 NeXt Doc Fellow, 2022 Lime Arts Unfinished Resident Playwright and Synesthesia Resident Artist, 2022 Sundress Arts Resident, 2022 Best of the Net Nominee, 2021 Baldwin For The Arts Resident, 2021 Hook Arts Media Digital Connections Fellow, 2021 Rogue Theater Festival Playwright-in-Residence, 2021 City Artist Corps, 2021 Stories Award Finalist, 2021 LMCC Governors Island Resident, 2021 Broadway For Racial Justice Inaugural Casting Directive Fellow, 2020 Seventh Wave Editorial Resident, 2020 Ars Nova Emerging Leaders Fellow, 2020 Spotify Sound Up cohort member, 2019 Player’s Theatre Resident Playwright, and 2018 NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador. They are a 2021-2024 Converse All Star Artist.
Dena Igusti 
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