About

Tyler English-Beckwith is a playwright, filmmaker, and actress from Dallas, TX, and currently based in New York, NY. She is the recipient of the 2020 Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers and the 2018 Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Play Prize. Her audiobook adaptation of Rebecca Hall’s Wake was a 2023 Audie Awards Audiobook of the Year nominee. Tyler worked as a staff writer on season 7 of Outlander on Starz. Recently, she sold a pilot to Amazon Studios with Rachel Brosnahan’s Scrap Paper Pictures and Marsai Martin’s Genius Productions. She has developed onscreen projects with Margot Robbie’s Lucky Chap, Sony, and Zadan/Meron Productions. She is currently collaborating with Kenya Barris’ Khalabo Ink Society on an original podcast for Audible. Tyler was a member of the 2020-2021 Page 73 writers group Interstate 73. Her plays include Mingus (2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2019 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Play Conference Finalist), Maya and Rivers (2020 Fire This Time Festival), Bitch (Development: Page 73’s Interstate 73), and TWENTYEIGHT (The Vortex, Austin, TX). Tyler holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch, and two BAs in African and African Diaspora Studies and Theater and Dance from UT Austin. In her writing, Tyler hopes to create worlds where Black women live beyond the basic means of survival and have the audacity to be autonomous.