Cori Thomas

Cori Thomas is an award winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include, LOCKDOWN; WHEN JANUARY FEELS LIKE SUMMER; CITIZENS MARKET; THE LIBERIAN LEGACY TRILOGY and more. Her plays have been produced and developed at Rattlestick Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Page 73, Women’s Project; City Theater Co. Pittsburgh; The Goodman Theater; Pillsbury House Theater; Mixed Blood; and more.

She has won the American Theater Critics Osborn Award for Best New Play, was a runner up for The Horton Foote Prize; is a two time Theodore Ward Prize winner. Cori is a New Dramatists Resident; O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Fellow ; 2 time Sundance Theater Lab Fellow; MacDowell Colony; Bogliasco; Baryshnikov Arts Center; Edgerton Foundation Prize; and more. 

She is presently contracted to write an original screenplay about Nelson Mandela for HBO Films and Tribeca Productions, and has developed a TV series with JuVee Productions, a Podcast series with AUDIBLE, and more. Other: Cori founded The Pa’s Hat Foundation a 501c(3) in 2012. Pa’s Hat is an organization focused on helping former child soldiers and other marginalized citizens of Liberia, West Africa with educational and work related assistance. Cori is an ongoing volunteer at San Quentin State Prison. She is on the Board of Directors of New Dramatists, Pa’s Hat Foundation, and No More TearsSQ. 

Cori is represented by Leah Hamos and Vernalis Co at The Gersh Agency lhamos@gersh.com and vco@gersh.com